On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:02, Mark Hammond<skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > In general I agree - although I think we can enforce a "social contract" > which puts requirements on people who commit to the Python repository - and > therefore we can consider the server-side hooks a "secondary" defense. IOW, > the system (including the social aspects of the system) are setup such that > the server-side hooks are very rarely called upon.
Agreed. > With all due respect, I suspect that is because you don't expect to see the > issue regularly. I suspect so, too! > I'm yet to work on a hg repository without mixed line endings. If I > understand correctly, every such repository would have involved a developer > checking in locally, than at some point in the future pushing these changes > upstream. I really really don't want hg to tell me at this final step that > I need to perform whitespace only fixes purely because I am running Windows. > > I understand we are discussing how win32text can offer that - but I must > object to your assertion that the situation I described isn't bad when you > hit it. I agree it is to be avoided, I'm just saying that I think it will be exceptional and therefore not a large burden, given other kinds of defenses we can put in place. > Actually, I think it is easy to make this problem much easier to understand; > mandate every platform should use win32text, then start collating the issues > people, including yourself, will no doubt face. I'm happy to get this ball > rolling, but again, don't want this left purely in the domain of "it is a > windows problem" - it isn't. I'm not sure how win32text will provide anything other than performance degradation for non-Windows developers, but if there's functionality to be had, I'm happy to mandate its use on every platform. Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
