[darcs-devel] [issue2571] revisit encoding when reading/writing text files

Ben Franksen ben.franksen at online.de
Sun Jun 21 10:09:53 UTC 2020


Am 21.06.20 um 11:07 schrieb Ganesh Sittampalam:
> On 21/06/2020 09:37, Ben Franksen wrote:
>>> Out of interest did you deliberately open the issue several months
>>> after writing the patch? Not a problem, just wondering about the workflow.
>>
>> No, that was not deliberate, I did the same as you just did: replying to
>> the tracker. This resets the status to unknown:
> 
> Oh, that's a bit annoying. I've set the status back to resolved again.
> 
> But I don't see what that status has to do with the ordering of opening
> the issue (March 2018) and writing the patch (August 2017).

Perhaps this is because the large encoding refactor wasn't in screened
for quite some time. I went looking for a patch that modifies
Darcs.Util.Lock and that has a hunk matching TextFile. When I found the
patch I checked that it makes this change (i.e. use TextMode for all
xxxTextFile procedures).



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