[Python-Dev] *.dsp and *.dsw are treated by CVS as binary. Why? (original) (raw)

Trent Mick trentm@ActiveState.com
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:39:00 -0700

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:13:45AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

guido wrote: > I think I made them binary during the period when I was mounting the > Unix source directory on a Windows machine. I don't do that any more > and I don't know anyone who does

we do. trent wrote: > > Does anybody see any problems treating them as text files? developer studio 5.0 does: "This makefile was not generated by Developer Studio" "Continuing will create a new Developer Studio project to wrap this makefile. You will be prompted to save after the new project has been created". "Do you want to continue" (click yes) "The options file (.opt) for this workspace specified a project configuration "... - Win32 Alpha Release" that no longer exists. The configuration will be set to "... - Win32 Debug" (click OK) (click build) "MAKE : fatal error U1052: file '....mak' not found"

I admit that I have not tried a clean checkout and used DevStudio 5 (I will try at home alter today). Howver, I do think that the problem here is that you grabbed in the short iterim before patch:

http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2000-August/007072.html

I hope I hope. If it is broken for MSVC 5 when I tried in a little bit I will back out.

Trent

-- Trent Mick TrentM@ActiveState.com