Re: [Plplot-devel] tk driver

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

>>>
Under Linux/Unix whatever line-ending style is in cvs is checked out that
way and not converted and similarly on check-in.  I wasn't sure what
happened
on windows, but I noticed in the past that some of the files in the
windows
area were a horrible mixture of the two styles so I made the decision to
convert them to a consistent (windows) style.

I notice on all your many recent check-ins that you are using a Linux line
ending style.  I really appreciate that for the core parts, but you don't
need to extend that to sys/win-tk/ if it is an extra burden for you there.
>>>

No extra burden at all.  In fact it would be a burden (and a bad idea, I
_think_) to do differently.

All the text files (including all of those ones which you see as '\n')
have \r\n on my machine, so when I checked everything in, I didn't have to
do anything special at all, because cvs converted that to \n on the fly.

The only problems arise because:

(i) processing of files (e.g. by perl) assumes a particular line-ending
style.  (I would call this a bug in the perl script)
(ii) files aren't binary when they should be (e.g. lib/*.fnt)

Anyway, these are the lessons I've picked up from developing Tcl, which I
think should also apply to plplot, but also feel free to ignore them if
they seem wrong. The most important one is (ii) because plplot will 100%
guaranteed segfault at the moment, which isn't very helpful!

cheers,

-- Vince

<http://www.santafe.edu/~vince>