[CMake] Generating source code packages with Windows line endings

[David Cole]

The Windows source package is built on Windows with Windows tools.
Similarly for the Unix source package.

If you do it that way, everything "just works".


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca>
wrote:

> I have a Windows user for FreeEOS that is having trouble with the (Unix)
> line endings in the FreeEOS source release tarball.  The PLplot team have
> never had any complaints about this issue so I assume most Windows users
> know how to convert Unix line endings.  OTOH, I notice the CMake
> release deals with this issue by releasing source packages with both Unix
> and Windows line endings.
>
> I have no windows experience so I would appreciate comments on whether it
> is
> generally a worthwhile thing to do to release Unix and Windows source.
> CMake
> is the only package I am aware of that does this.  Is this a tradition
> established a long time ago that may not be justified or is this something
> the CMake developers would recommend for all source releases?  (My user may
> be a special case of using some really old windows system where tools to
> convert line endings are not available, but it may also be the case that he
> is ill-informed about the availability of such tools.)
>
> Assuming it is generally considered to be a good idea to release source
> code
> with both Unix and Windows line endings, is that something that can be
> handled automatically by CPack or does the CMake release guy generate the
> Unix source by cpack and run a special script afterward to generate the
> windows source package?  If special script, could that be made a CPack
> option?
>
> Alan
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