From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:02:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test-tr: poor-man tr
Message-ID: <20080613060215.GB26768@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080612203245.GB8057@steel.home>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:32:45PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:

> That was the problem. ActiveState Perl always replaces LF in the
> output with CRLF, which caused mismatches with template files in some
> tests (even the generated templates had LF line endings, cygwins tools
> follow that convention). At first, I tried to get by putting
> "binmode(STDOUT)" into every test, but this became boring with a time.
> Besides, the lines get very long and ugly (and make conflict resolving
> harder).

Does ActiveState respect the PERLIO environment variable? I haven't
played with it much, but my understanding is that setting
PERLIO=:unix:perlio should give you sane behavior (the default on
Windows should be PERLIO=:unix:crlf).

> > So I am not opposed to test-tr, I just wanted you to explain it better
> > in the commit log. ;)
> 
> I already tried.

I think this thread and the improved commit message have helped.

-Peff