3.9 Oddities

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Sat Sep 9 15:53:55 UTC 2006


On 9-Sep-06, at 12:44 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>>   Has anybody mentioned to Rich that one of the reason is that the
>> compiled methods hold integer indice into .changes and .sources  
>> files?
>
> This is not a valid reason (as are all the others in my opinion).  
> Transparent Cr/Lf handling does not prevent byte-oriented  
> positioning which is the only requirement for indexing sources and  
> changes file. I have advocated the use of CrLfFileStream since 1997  
> and nobody has ever brought a technical reason forward why this  
> wouldn't be feasible.

Well as I recall it, you were employed in the thick of the team of  
people with control over the image for several years around that  
time. What were the reasons for not adopting such a filestream back  
then?

tim
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