Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > >>> Don't know, but guess so: it contains bytes outside the set ANSI C >>> says can be used portably in text files. >> >> >> >> However, this is not necessarily enough reason to use -kb. The only >> things -kb does are LF -> CRLF / LF -> CR mapping, not using diff for >> updates, and not expanding $ keywords. > > > That is not true. On Apple computers, it also avoids conversion from > Latin-1 to Mac-Roman, which Mac CVS does by default for text files. > Making the files binary is the only way to avoid this conversion, and > that is precisely the reason why the file is binary. I didn't know this. > You may argue that this is a bug in Mac CVS, and I would agree. However, > that specific bug has -kb as a known work-around, and the issue reported > here points to a bug in the compiler packages which should be fixed > rather than worked-around. I agree that this sounds very much like a MacCVS bug, but it also sounds like an excellent reason to leave this file alone. And the compiler issue should be (and has been, I saw) fixed. -- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 374 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20041012/577896c2/signature.pgp
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