Re: Windows formatted scripts

From: Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 03:55:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Windows formatted scripts
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Alessandro 'Aronnax' Rossini wrote: >>or maybe they're too lazy to do it :) > > > Of course, but lazy developers should not develop packages that are also > shipped with the main PHP package. :) > The typical approach "make it dirty if you can" has caused, at least in the > recent past, PHP to be considered a sort of toy and not a rigorous > (scripting) language. QA should supervise the work done by developers of PEAR > core packages to avoid this kind of mistakes. The PEAR manual say "must", not > "should"... Are you volunteering? Volunteers are needed to help out. It's not a question of laziness. I have the editor set to use the existing line endings because many of the packages I develop contain files that must work in windows (batch files must have /r/n) and files that must work in unix (shell scripts must have /n). Greg

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