Re: Can I build gnuwin32-patch with Visual Studio 6/7/or 8, and if yes, how?

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I think it would be very nice if patch.exe could be made to handle 
> different line endings in a transparent way. After all patch.exe is in 
> those cases used to handle lines and any human can see what has to be 
> done. Why should not patch.exe do the right thing then?
> 
> I would suppose that would mean that the output file should have the 
> same line ending style as the file beeing patched. Apart from that line 
> endings should not matter IMO.

Agreed, but I'm wondering how many Windows developers use patch.  When
I see instructions of the form "load file foo in Notepad, replace
hex string A with hex string B, delete line C, save" instead of a
patch file, you wonder if there are cultural assumptions that patch
is primarily a Unix tool.

(See the post titled
"how to make service pack 5 install on vista beta 2 without another pc!"
at https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=429752&SiteID=1
for a live example.)

Still this a GnuWin32 list, and I'd hope that by definition all Gnu/Win32
tools would be able to accept multiple line-end formats, and be
both smart and configurable as to which kind of line-end format they
should generate.

- Eric

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