X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 09:52:48 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.1.5-2 Message-ID: <20060803075248.GA23629@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <44D0E959.70903@netacquire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D0E959.70903@netacquire.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.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/