Re: BAD: Handling of package-index by package release and install system

APA> So, should we make the package-info.in files in the packages APA> tree be of type binary in CVS? Stephen> No. CVS binary has different semantics from MS-DOS/Mac binary. I Stephen> think this is a dangerous idea. Please explain the danger to me. This excerpt from the CVS manual does not convince me: How to store binary files ========================= There are two issues with using CVS to store binary files. The first is that CVS by default converts line endings between the canonical form in which they are stored in the repository (linefeed only), and the form appropriate to the operating system in use on the client (for example, carriage return followed by line feed for Windows NT). The second is that a binary file might happen to contain data which looks like a keyword (*note Keyword substitution::.), so keyword expansion must be turned off. If we store the file with \n line endings in binary form, that's what we'll have inside and outside of CVS. A nuisance will be that CVS cannot merge these files for us. But XEmacs can. Stephen> Fix the files that call i-f-c-l to include text to do a Stephen> post-processing phase of undossing the buffer. Or maybe Stephen> you don't need to i-f-c-l at all, just i-f-c. Or maybe Perhaps. We would just have to make sure that the resulting package-index.LATEST.pgp gets stored with the same line-endings on all platforms packages can be built on. I presume this would be \n line endings only. Stephen> the manipulations on package-index should be done on Lisp Stephen> structures, not on buffer text. Stephen> I'm working on the package code at the moment, I'll add Stephen> that to the list. Great. I'll leave that in your trusting hands and offer to test your new code on Windows 2000. Best regards, Adrian Stephen> -- Stephen> University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Stephen> Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 Stephen> _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ Stephen> What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules." -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/