text file formats

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

 >> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:05:42 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz
 >> <drow@false.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