On 02/16/2017 09:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
It seems to me that when one bumps into some code which looks incorrect or less than optimal, and one considers its replacement with a more clever code,
No, that's not it. The idea was to simplify maintenance for the GNU case, perhaps at some cost to MS-Windows users, but they are lower priority so it is OK. The MS-Windows code was a mess because the two forms of auto binary-file detection could not work in combination; this was because one of the two forms was contributed later and without regard to MS-Windows. Perhaps the MS-Windows port could be improved without undue hassle to the GNU code, although that would require someone with MS-Windows expertise and enough free time to do it. Failing that, I suppose MS-Windows users can use -a and -U if they run into trouble, so it's not that big a deal.
