The Windows source package is built on Windows with Windows tools.<br>Similarly for the Unix source package.<br><br>If you do it that way, everything "just works".<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Alan W. Irwin <<a href="mailto:irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca">irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have a Windows user for FreeEOS that is having trouble with the (Unix)<br>
line endings in the FreeEOS source release tarball. The PLplot team have<br>
never had any complaints about this issue so I assume most Windows users<br>
know how to convert Unix line endings. OTOH, I notice the CMake<br>
release deals with this issue by releasing source packages with both Unix<br>
and Windows line endings.<br>
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I have no windows experience so I would appreciate comments on whether it is<br>
generally a worthwhile thing to do to release Unix and Windows source. CMake<br>
is the only package I am aware of that does this. Is this a tradition<br>
established a long time ago that may not be justified or is this something<br>
the CMake developers would recommend for all source releases? (My user may<br>
be a special case of using some really old windows system where tools to<br>
convert line endings are not available, but it may also be the case that he<br>
is ill-informed about the availability of such tools.)<br>
<br>
Assuming it is generally considered to be a good idea to release source code<br>
with both Unix and Windows line endings, is that something that can be<br>
handled automatically by CPack or does the CMake release guy generate the<br>
Unix source by cpack and run a special script afterward to generate the<br>
windows source package? If special script, could that be made a CPack<br>
option?<br>
<br>
Alan<br>
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,<br>
University of Victoria (<a href="http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca" target="_blank">astrowww.phys.uvic.ca</a>).<br>
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Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation<br>
for stellar interiors (<a href="http://freeeos.sf.net" target="_blank">freeeos.sf.net</a>); PLplot scientific plotting software<br>
package (<a href="http://plplot.org" target="_blank">plplot.org</a>); the libLASi project (<a href="http://unifont.org/lasi" target="_blank">unifont.org/lasi</a>); the Loads of<br>
Linux Links project (<a href="http://loll.sf.net" target="_blank">loll.sf.net</a>); and the Linux Brochure Project<br>
(<a href="http://lbproject.sf.net" target="_blank">lbproject.sf.net</a>).<br>
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