Re: RFC: delayed Logdaemon port merge

On tor, 2008-06-26 at 13:15 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:

> There is and it works fine for many windows users. However some using
> problematic toolchains like Visual Studio have more needs than just
> checking out the code - they need file mangling. And that is very close
> to landing now - code is all working its just being tweaked during
> review.

I wouldn't blaim the toolchains for that. Native tool chains expects
native file formats. If any platform is to blaim here it's UNIX which
isn't using network format for it's text files.. (CR LF).

Handling known text-files as-is cross platforms is plain silly. Will not
work. And as you probably know it gets even worse if you throw macs into
the equation.

In design the best cross-platform mode is imho to from start decide that
known text files is stored in network file format (CR LF), especially
for tools mainly developed in UNIX... but obviously a little more space
efficient to store them in UNIX or MAC form.

Regards
Henrik