Alternatives to EOL extension

[Carsten Fuchs]

Hi Mads,

Am 15.01.2015 um 19:18 schrieb Mads Kiilerich:
> Yes, "the right way" is that everybody works on Linux ...

Uhhh... are you telling me that Mercurial is not so platform 
independent, after all?

> or at least
> use platforms and tools that at least agree on the basics. If your world
> is different, you need something.

The trouble is what?

As mentioned in another post, at this time it seems as if users that 
start a new project (that is kept in Mercurial) have to either rely on 
spotless manual inspection of line endings (probably very unreliable and 
prone to errors), or to come up with a checker script (simple as it may 
be) as one of the first steps near the beginning of the project?

> I don't read the wiki pages as "don't use". It is clearly "use if you
> need it".

Well, I quoted from 
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FeaturesOfLastResort in my first post, 
here is another part, specifically about the EOL extension: "These 
legacy features were very intentionally excluded from the Mercurial 
design because their cost/benefit ratio was exceptionally bad."

This sounds pretty scary to me, and while the pages say that there are 
alternatives, they don't explain or even mention anything concrete.

Best regards,
Carsten