Last day to vote/reject on proposed EOL names

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Mark Hammond wrote:
>> Some brain-dead windows-only applications that do not recognise lf as
>> a line-separator and linux shell scripts that don't work if they have
>> crlf.  There are others.
> 
> Right - so the files processed by the brain-dead windows apps are checked in
> with \r\n and marked as exact.  The files processed by the brain-dead gnu
> tools get checked in with \n and marked as exact.  Unless a braind-dead tool
> from each of these categories needs to process the *same* file, I still
> don't see the problem.

notepad.exe foo.sh

Well, probably
wordpad.exe foo.sh

Given that notepad would fail to parse \n endings at all.

John
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>> In both cases the files may be checked out on either platform to build
>> an installer that includes these files. That installer can then be run
>> on either platform but needs it's install content to be correct.
> 
> But best I can tell, if they were marked as 'exact', they *would* be correct
> everywhere?
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> Mark
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