From: Guenter M. <mi...@us...> - 2010-06-20 09:24:10
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On 2010-06-17, David Goodger wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 17:31, Guenter Milde <mi...@us...> wrote: >> On 2010-06-15, SourceForge.net wrote: >>> Bugs item #3015675, was opened at 2010-06-13 19:36 >>> Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jdorocak >>> You can respond by visiting: >>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=422030&aid=3015675&group_id=38414 ... >> While download/checkout from the SVN repo will (usually) convert the >> line-endings to OS-native format, this is not done for the daily >> snapshot. >> This makes the tests from such an install fail on some systems. >> Options: >> * document this (and the consequences) for Windows and Mac users. > Mac uses the same line endings as Linux (since OS X, 9 years ago?). (this are good "news" :-) >> * add line-end conversion to the setup script. > * have the test scripts normalize line endings Do you regard this as one more alternative, or as "the way to go"? Dose "normalize" mean "convert to Unix line endings",r "convert to OS-native line endings" or "use the same convention, whichever is easier to achieve"? I would suggest to do line-end conversion in the setup for the functional test's "expected" files and "normalize" line endings in the test scripts (if that is not already done). Günter |