Re: makeinfo and end-of-line format

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:19:44PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> >> I can't think of any temp files off the top of my head, or easily find
> >> such with grep.  Anyway, if all the hundreds of tests pass with the
> >> change, I think it's safe enough to proceed.
> >
> > Then maybe we should indeed proceed, and let users complain, if there
> > are problems.
> 
> Done. If others have better ideas or patches please post them.
> 
> Before the patch I posted, I had tried another change to
> Texinfo/Convert/Info.pm, which ran "binmode" on the file handle
> returned by "open_out". This failed the test suite, however, because
> it reset the UTF-8 conversion in place on the file handle. I couldn't
> see an easy way to turn off EOL conversion on an existing file handle
> without resetting other "output filters" at the same time. We could
> always add an extra argument to "open_out", but I'd prefer not to
> because that is just making things more complicated.

But for most of the other formats, like HTML, DocBook, XML and, maybe
more importrantly PlanText, it would be better to keep CRLF end of lines
on windows.  So adding an argument to open_out seems to be a good idea
to be able to differentiate Info nd other formats.

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Pat