[Gnu-arch-users] Re: windows/linux interop status - line endings?

[Anand Kumria]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:25:30 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 19:00 -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
>> The issue is garbage: it's residual from early mudslinging between the
>> MSFT world and everyone else, afaict.
>> 
>> Stick something in your makefiles if you're stuck with line-ending issues.
>> 
>> Bitch to your MSFT tool vendors -- logically, albeit it not economically, 
>> they
>> are the odd man out.
> 
> For all that, I think something consistent is needed. If in ones
> archive, you want unix line endings, but have contributors on older
> macos machines, and on windows machines, then you have to deal with
> toolchains on each platform being different. (I know of 3 different
> ASCII line ending formats that have been in widespread use).
> 
> The one common point of interchange is the RCS. I think it has to be
> there that the solution is hooked in, whether its native to the RCS or
> not.

Isn't diff being used to determine whether a file is binary? If it is then
the appropriate fopen mode with 'b' tacked on should make things work for
both text and binary, no?

Anand