Re: Windows formatted scripts
| From: | Greg Beaver | 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