delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi | search |
X-Spam-Check-By: | sourceware.org |
Date: | Thu, 3 Aug 2006 09:52:48 +0200 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.1.5-2 |
Message-ID: | <20060803075248.GA23629@calimero.vinschen.de> |
Reply-To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Mail-Followup-To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
References: | <announce DOT 20060802124250 DOT GP8152 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <44D0E959 DOT 70903 AT netacquire DOT com> |
Mime-Version: | 1.0 |
In-Reply-To: | <44D0E959.70903@netacquire.com> |
User-Agent: | Mutt/1.4.2i |
Mailing-List: | contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm |
List-Unsubscribe: | <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Subscribe: | <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Archive: | <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> |
List-Post: | <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Help: | <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> |
Sender: | cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com |
Mail-Followup-To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Delivered-To: | mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
On Aug 2 11:05, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > You wrote: > > >I've updated the version of sed to 4.1.5-2. > > > >It reverts the default behaviour of sed back to treating CR/LF as > >lineendings, in contrast to 4.1.5-1, which only treated the trailing LF > >as lineending and the preceeding CR as the last character on the line. > > Thank you very much for this fix. It will make life easier for all of us > who struggle with a mix of native and Cygwin tools. It is very much > appreciated that as far as line endings are concerned the attitude taken by > Cygwin developers is not "use POSIX line endings". Sorry, but that's not why I did it. My personal opinion is still strongly on the "use POSIX line endings" side. I made the fix only so that other mailing lists don't suffer (see the latest discussion on the binutils mailing list. Other than that I have only so much patience for the dreaded textmode/binmode problem and I'm seriously contemplating (for years) to just remove textmode from Cygwin. CRLF lineendings are in the top 10 of the worst ideas in the OS business. > At the risk of provoking another salvo of emotional responses I'd like to > express the hope that those who take the opposite attitude with respect to > path names ("use POSIX paths") may reconsider their position. I would Not me. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
webmaster | delorie software privacy |
Copyright © 2019 by DJ Delorie | Updated Jul 2019 |