--- a/CHANGES.txt	Tue Oct 08 07:28:34 2002 +0000
+++ b/CHANGES.txt	Wed Oct 09 01:00:41 2002 +0000
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 - nicer display of tracker list in roundup-server (sf bug 619769)
 - fixed some missed renaming instance -> tracker (sf bug 619769)
 - allow blank passwords again (sf bug 619714)
+- expose the tracker config as a variable for templating
+- homogenise newlines in CGI text submissions (sf bug 614072)
 
 
 2002-10-02 0.5.0

--- a/doc/customizing.txt	Tue Oct 08 07:28:34 2002 +0000
+++ b/doc/customizing.txt	Wed Oct 09 01:00:41 2002 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Customising Roundup
 ===================
 
-:Version: $Revision: 1.53 $
+:Version: $Revision: 1.54 $
 
 .. This document borrows from the ZopeBook section on ZPT. The original is at:
    http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current/ZPT.stx
@@ -1032,10 +1032,11 @@
    - *form*
      The current CGI form information as a mapping of form argument
      name to value
-**tracker**
-  The current tracker
+**config**
+  This variable holds all the values defined in the tracker config.py file 
+  (eg. TRACKER_NAME, etc.)
 **db**
-  The current database, through which db.config may be reached.
+  The current database, used to access arbitrary database items.
 **templates**
   Access to all the tracker templates by name. Used mainly in *use-macro*
   commands.

--- a/roundup/cgi/client.py	Tue Oct 08 07:28:34 2002 +0000
+++ b/roundup/cgi/client.py	Wed Oct 09 01:00:41 2002 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: client.py,v 1.51 2002-10-08 04:11:17 richard Exp $
+# $Id: client.py,v 1.52 2002-10-09 01:00:40 richard Exp $
 
 __doc__ = """
 WWW request handler (also used in the stand-alone server).
@@ -1033,7 +1033,8 @@
         # in a nutshell, don't do anything if there's no note or there's no
         # NOSY
         if self.form.has_key(':note'):
-            note = self.form[':note'].value.strip()
+            # fix the CRLF/CR -> LF stuff
+            note = fixNewlines(self.form[':note'].value.strip())
         if not note:
             return None, files
         if not props.has_key('messages'):
@@ -1105,6 +1106,15 @@
                     link = self.db.classes[link]
                     link.set(nodeid, **{property: nid})
 
+def fixNewlines(text):
+    ''' Homogenise line endings.
+
+        Different web clients send different line ending values, but
+        other systems (eg. email) don't necessarily handle those line
+        endings. Our solution is to convert all line endings to LF.
+    '''
+    text = text.replace('\r\n', '\n')
+    return text.replace('\r', '\n')
 
 def parsePropsFromForm(db, cl, form, nodeid=0, num_re=re.compile('^\d+$')):
     ''' Pull properties for the given class out of the form.
@@ -1144,6 +1154,8 @@
         if isinstance(proptype, hyperdb.String):
             if not value:
                 continue
+            # fix the CRLF/CR -> LF stuff
+            value = fixNewlines(value)
         elif isinstance(proptype, hyperdb.Password):
             if not value:
                 # ignore empty password values

--- a/roundup/cgi/templating.py	Tue Oct 08 07:28:34 2002 +0000
+++ b/roundup/cgi/templating.py	Wed Oct 09 01:00:41 2002 +0000
@@ -126,10 +126,10 @@
            - methods for easy filterspec link generation
            - *user*, the current user node as an HTMLItem instance
            - *form*, the current CGI form information as a FieldStorage
-        *tracker*
-          The current tracker
+        *config*
+          The current tracker config.
         *db*
-          The current database, through which db.config may be reached.
+          The current database, used to access arbitrary database items.
     '''
     def getContext(self, client, classname, request):
         c = {
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@
              'nothing': None,
              'request': request,
              'db': HTMLDatabase(client),
+             'config': client.instance.config,
              'tracker': client.instance,
              'utils': TemplatingUtils(client),
              'templates': Templates(client.instance.config.TEMPLATES),