[M3devel] CM3 release build regression tests not terminating

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 04:38:09PM +0000, Jay wrote:
> 
> Randy just because everyone else does it poorly does not generally tie your hands.
> I said on input, not on output.
>   Output does often tie your hands.

  There are situations wheere you need to recognize multiple ways of 
representing newline without normalizing them.

  If you are writing an editor for text that is under revision control, 
and you standardize newlines on input, and then write it out in any 
consistent convention, you run the risk that revision control will think 
that huge numbers of lines have been changed.  Of course, they have 
been, but not intentionally.  

-- hendrik