[liblouis-liblouisxml] Line endings and liblouisutdml
- From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:56:09 +0100
Hello,
As I am mainly working on windows now, I am running into issues while
working on the liblouis and liblouisutdml projects, line endings
normally are unix line endings but these don't work so well with some
tools on windows.
For liblouis I set a load of properties on files so that when a windows
user checks out the repository on windows they should mainly get windows
line endings.
For liblouisutdml mercurial is used, there are various solutions. I am
considering using the eol extension for mercurial as it enables the
configuration to be stored in the repository and all users then will get
the configuration. The only thing is that it would mean those who will
contribute will need to configure their mercurial to enable the eol
extension. This isn't hard and once done will work for all mercurial
repositories using the eol extension.
Here is the page about the eol extension
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EolExtension
As a quick summary, to enable the eol extension edit your user's .hgrc
file (unix users it will be ~/.hgrc and for windows users it would be
%USERPROFILE%\.hgrc ). All you need to do to this file is add the
following lines (NOTE: if the first line already exists then you only
need put the second line in that section IE. the next line down):
[extensions]
eol =
So my question is, would everyone be happy for me to use the eol
extension so that the correct line endings appear for the user's
platform? Shall I go ahead and create an .hgeol (the configuration for
the extension) file?
Also may be John if you could give me an idea what binary files exist
(eg. image files, etc).
Michael Whapples
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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