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[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: help needed

Martin (gzlist) gzlist at googlemail.com
Sat Sep 5 17:19:18 CEST 2009 
On 05/09/2009, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy <at> udel.edu> writes:
>>
>> If essentially all text files need fixed line endings on Windows, then
>> hg really needs this built in. Has it really not been used much on
>> Windows?
>
> Mercurial is used by e.g. Mozilla, which is not really known for poor
> Windows
> support (chances are many Firefox developers are Windows-based). I wonder
> whether they have written their own extension, or if they simply rely on
> their
> text editors to do the right thing.

Actually, most Firefox developers are mac based.

Mozilla isn't a great example of windows integration, they install
half-a-unix-system in order to just build under windows, including
msys, python 2.5, mercurial, and xemacs. See:
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Windows_Build_Prerequisites>

Martin
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