text file formats

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii
<elizgnu.org> writes:

 >> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:05:42 -0400 From: Daniel
Jacobowitz
 >> <drowfalse.org>
 >> 
 >> Why are you going to tremendous lengths to
accomodate non-native
 >> newline conventions?  Is there some good reason
I've missed?

 Eli> I don't know if that's Bob's reason, but one
good reason is that
 Eli> nowadays you can never know where (on what machine)
the source
 Eli> files live, and who edits them on what platform. 
For example,
 Eli> some developers are so used to Microsoft's Visual
Studio that
 Eli> they use it to edit sources to be compiled on Unix
(via the
 Eli> network).

 Eli> So it does make sense to support non-native
formats, although
 Eli> adding that to GDB would be a non-trivial job.

This is only an issue if the source control system doesn't
cure it.
Subversion does, for example.

	   paul

> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:20:51 -0400
> From: Paul Koning <pkoningequallogic.com>
> Cc: gdbsources.redhat.com
> 
>  Eli> So it does make sense to support non-native
formats, although
>  Eli> adding that to GDB would be a non-trivial job.
> 
> This is only an issue if the source control system
doesn't cure it.

I don't think we can rely on the assumption that an
arbitrary source
file is under source control system.

> Subversion does, for example.

I don't think we can rely on the assumption that everyone
uses
Subversion.