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thomas:

--- Quote from: killerbot on February 20, 2007, 02:44:42 pm ---when re-adding the 2 ParseFile() methods, all works well again.
@Thomas : do we add them again ??

For tonights nightly I will build with my private copy of autorevision.cpp

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Please don't. It were my fallback solutions that caused the problems why we use XML now. Although the intent was good, the idea was bad ;)
We should keep our hands off parsing that stuff, seriously.

First we had people with other languages (2-3 French, 2-3 Turkish, and 1-2 Russian, but I think it applies to all) who could not get it to work, because their locale would cause the date to be written in some format that my fallback parser did not understand. That was bad enough already.

But then, even worse, the entries file format was changed, so my fallback implementation would not even work in English locale any more! Everybody who never bothered having Subversion installed properly (because the fallback worked nicely) started yelling "arg! the build is broken!" over night, when it really wasn't. It was just that the fallback did not work with the new entries format.

So, the new implementation uses Subversion's XML output format, which is hopefully standardised and immutable (or at least backwards-compatible) so we never see any such thing again.
I'm very much disinclined to use a custom-made hack and take the responsibility for keeping up with locales, time zones, and file format changes when there is really a clean, reliably working solution, only because some people don't want to install Subversion (or have it in path).
It's no problem really... those who don't want to install Subversion can use a source tarball (when one is available), or they will have "Revision 0".

I don't think requesting Subversion is an outrageous demand, either. Without Subversion, there is no way you can check out a the sources, anyway. No, please don't tell me there is TortoiseSVN and RapidSVN and whatever :)
Using Tortoise/RapidSVN or similar is always nasty tampering, which may work or may not (remember the _svn issue they had last year). Granted, it usually works really nicely (I use it all day, and I very very rarely see an issue), but it is not the one real, canonical thing.

gjsmo:
Yes, hitting the < button works, but this should be done automatically. If there is enough room to see all the tabs, I want to see them!

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