Re: nt/makefile.w32-in

["Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On 12/22/06, LENNART BORGMAN <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:

> What I want to avoid is trouble after the release for those who
> wants to build themselves with tools that perhaps barks when
> there are different line endings in Makefile.

The CVS is accesible to anyone, and already many people builds from
the CVS instead of waiting for an official release (understandably, I
might add). We don't receive complains about that issue, so it must be
either a non-problem, or at least quite easy to circumvent.

> It seems like this point has somehow totally disappeared from
> our discussion.

No. What seems to be disappearing from this discussion is this
collection of facts:

 - not many people builds on Windows
 - nobody's complaining about the line endings (but you)
 - we're trying to do a release

and your counterarguments are:

 - perhaps it could hypothetically be a problem for someone
 - we can "fix" it, so let's fix it
 - I don't think it will break anything

Excuse me if I don't find them compelling. (Yeah, I know I'm
simplifying your arguments; what are strawmen for? :)

                    /L/e/k/t/u