From: Chris Little (cslittle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-08 12:52:50
on 7/8/02 1:00 PM, David B. Held at dheld_at_[hidden] wrote:
> "Paul A. Bristow" <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:AHEJIHEOOOBMJPAGPLIPOEJODBAA.boost_at_hetp.u-net.com...
>> Thanks for this suggestion - but most important I was saying that a Boost
>> release should not contain 'features' like this, especially when they
> cause
>> such perplexing effects.
>
> It was my understanding that different boost archive files had different
> line terminations. That is, I thought that the .zip version had CR/LF
> line endings, while the .tar.gz version had LF. Perhaps there should be
> an .hqx version (or whatever the BinHex extension is) with just CR?
>
> Dave
That's not necessary. Mac compilers typically handle all of the line
endings. I would image that the mix of line ending is caused by someone
checking files in as opposed to the problem being created during the release
process.
Chris