| Re: [platform-vcm-dev] Question to repository provider writers: text vs. binary files |
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 16:47, Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxx wrote: > In CVS, we need to distinguish between text files and binary files. There > is no facility in Eclipse to tell us this attribute. Therefore for Team > CVS, a mechanism is required, which could take on a variety of forms: > > 1- registration list of file pattern to text/bin flag > 2- local list of known types, or server list of known types, where > supported (e.g. CVS) > 3- extension point that plugins can hook to tell you about files types > they've introduced > etc. > > The question is, do any providers other than CVS have a requirement to know > about text vs. binary files? If there isn't, then support for this will be > CVS specific, because we don't want to put something in > org.eclipse.team.core that is really just there for CVS. We (Stellation) definitely need to be able to distinguish between text and binary. (In fact, we'd really like to be able to make finer distinctions between artifact types. Ideally, we'd like a general mechanism to allow us to mark files as belonging to an extensible set of file types.) -Mark -- Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> *** The (recently renamed) Stellation project: *** http://domino.research.ibm.com/synedra/synedra.nsf *** GPG Public key available at keyserver.net
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