
Here is some fresh information: * The reason the inspection program wasn't detecting more line ending problems was a really stupid bug by me - the files were not being read in binary mode. That made it look like the program was working, because it worked on a corner case which happened to be the case tested during development. Not only that, but html files weren't in the list of extensions being checked. Anyhow, both problems have been fixed in CVS. * Running the corrected inspect program shows 148 files with invalid line endings, in both the current CVS RC_1_31_0 branch and the release candidate. * Here are the RC2 counts by library: build 16 date_time 2 dynamic_bitset 1 graph 4 inspect 1 integer 2 math 7 mpl 1 python 1 spirit 113 * The current CVS head has 190 invalid line endings, with all of the increase coming in Spirit. That's worrisome; does it mean that some Spirit files are missing from the RC_1_31_0 branch? I'm not too worried about the scattered bad line ends in other libraries, but I'm definitely worried about Spirit. Before Joel or anyone makes wholesale fixes, I'd like to see one file fixed and checked. I'm also concerned that because we aren't 100% sure exactly what happened, it will bite us again. --Beman

Beman Dawes wrote:
Here is some fresh information:
* The current CVS head has 190 invalid line endings, with all of the increase coming in Spirit. That's worrisome; does it mean that some Spirit files are missing from the RC_1_31_0 branch?
I'm not sure, but that must be Fusion which won't be included in the 1.31.0 release.
I'm not too worried about the scattered bad line ends in other libraries, but I'm definitely worried about Spirit.
Before Joel or anyone makes wholesale fixes, I'd like to see one file fixed and checked. I'm also concerned that because we aren't 100% sure exactly what happened, it will bite us again.
Ok. Understood. Thanks for the fresh info, Beman. Martin Wille says he will look into the problem. Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net

At 07:09 PM 1/29/2004, Joel de Guzman wrote:
Martin Wille says he will look into the problem.
Update: Martin is making good progress, working with other Spirit folks to clear various problems. I plan to finalize the release soon after the Spirit issues clear. I'll post one last message before the final release tagging. --Beman
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