Is there a reason why third party component vendors still ship dfm in binary format and did not convert them ever?

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Is there a reason why third party component vendors still ship dfm in binary format and did not convert them ever?

I just noticed that I corrupted some of them when using git with strict eol handling (dfm in text work fine). So I used convert.exe and converted them to text format before committing them.

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  1. Martyn SpencerApril 25, 2017 at 3:59 AM

    Personally, I can think of no reason they should do this. It is probably a question best directed at the vendors who insist on doing so. As you say, text based DFMs play so much more nicely with version control, etc.

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  2. Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)April 25, 2017 at 4:02 AM

    IIRC Delphi 4 was the first version that supported text DFMs. So, unless they still want to support Delphi 3 and older (20 years old), there is no reason I can think of.

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  3. Lars FosdalApril 25, 2017 at 4:07 AM

    Please name and shame ;)

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  4. Stefan GlienkeApril 25, 2017 at 4:18 AM

    Lars Fosdal Abbrevia, FastReport, TRichView, TMS ScripterStudio

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  5. Jacek LaskowskiApril 25, 2017 at 4:26 AM

    btw I use SourceTree and maaany repositories, but only S4D repo still generates problems with EOL. Exactly this problem: stackoverflow.com - SourceTree App says uncommitted changes even for newly-cloned repository - what could be wrong?

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  6. Stefan GlienkeApril 25, 2017 at 4:40 AM

    Jacek Laskowski Almost nobody uses a .gitattributes file in their git repositories which results in eol being all over the place depending on the git client settings of people that commit. Only using a .gitattributes file solves that problem properly - because there the settings are part of the repository and it does not matter what everyone has locally set their eol handling to.

    It might be your .git/config is improperly configured (see comments to the accepted answer you linked to).

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  7. Wagner LandgrafApril 25, 2017 at 4:57 AM

    Stefan Glienke Can't say for others, but for TMS Scripter, it's just a matter of not taking the effort of changing the DFM format (it was binary once and never changed). We can review this eventually, If you want to be kind and e-mail me with the list of files that are bothering you we can quickly manage to convert them for future releases.

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  8. Jacek LaskowskiApril 25, 2017 at 5:02 AM

    Stefan Glienke You are probably right, but why with other repositories this problem does not occur?

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  9. Stefan GlienkeApril 25, 2017 at 5:11 AM

    Because they don't have a .gitattributes plus misconfigured .git/config? guessing

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  10. Stefan GlienkeApril 25, 2017 at 5:15 AM

    Wagner Landgraf Look for convert.exe in the Delphi\bin directory

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  11. Ondrej KelleApril 25, 2017 at 6:23 AM

    A very simple pre-commit client hook:

    gist.github.com - pre-commit

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  12. Jeroen Wiert PluimersApril 25, 2017 at 6:55 AM

    David Berneda knows why.

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  13. David BernedaApril 25, 2017 at 7:32 AM

    One old issue with the XE5 osx compiler, some forms in text format raised a "Bad file format" exception, fix was leave them binary

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  14. Roman KassebaumApril 25, 2017 at 12:43 PM

    Stefan Glienke The current version of Abbrevia does? I will have a look at it.

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  15. Nicholas RingApril 25, 2017 at 2:06 PM

    /sub

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  16. Roman KassebaumApril 25, 2017 at 4:10 PM

    Stefan Glienke I just changed Abbrevia and asked Marco and Serge to update GetIt.

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  17. Stefan GlienkeApril 25, 2017 at 4:39 PM

    Good for you - I actually don't care because I don't like your approach to maintain them individually for each Delphi version - you probably did this only for 10.2 and not for any of the others.

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  18. Roman KassebaumApril 25, 2017 at 4:43 PM

    Stefan Glienke Talk to Marco about this issue.

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