Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] localhost_tests failures

[K. G. <kim...@gm...>]

Hi Divye,

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 15:43, Divye Kapoor <div...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Attached is a patch for the modified test.xml and adjusted
>> localhost_tests.cpp. Unfortunately, TortoiseSVN seems to have trouble
>> handling changes only in line endings, so whoever commits this may
>> need to alter test.xml manually to make it use Unix line-endings.
>
> I would not advise such a commit as it atleast prevents *us* from munging
> line endings while handling text bodies.

I'm not sure I understand... Are you saying it could mask bugs in
cpp-netlib? Could you elaborate?

> Even though it might seem nice to
> resolve this issue via a file that doesn't have CRLF line breaks, I would
> suggest that it be resolved by changing the test case to reflect the reduced
> file size in the case of Windows/Python combination.

True, that seems like a safer workaround. I'll get to it.

- Kim