On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 18:03, Andreas Voegele wrote:
> Mikael Hallendal writes:
> 
> > We should write some spec. on how ebuilds should look like
> > (guidelines for style) and then make a emacs and a vi mode for
> > editing ebuilds that controls the style.
> 
> If only tabs and *no* spaces were allowed at the beginning of lines it
> would be very easy to check ebuild scripts for wrong spaces.
> 
> We could rip the required code from the Emacs Makefile mode, which
> checks for suspicious tabs and highlights these areas when a user
> tries to save the Makefile.
> 
> BTW, if a single tab was used in front of dependencies the output
> would look like this:
> 
> tabwidth 4:
> 
> DEPEND="virtual/glibc
>     virtual/x11
> RDEPEND="virtual/glibc
>     virtual/x11
> 
> tabwidth 8:
> 
> DEPEND="virtual/glibc
>         virtual/x11
> RDEPEND="virtual/glibc
>         virtual/x11
> 
> IMHO both outputs look good, and with this solution developers could
> still set the tabwidth to 4 or 8.
> 
> -- 
> Andreas

true, but that is not a problem, take for instance:

        make prefix=${D}/usr                        \
             sysconfdir=${D}/etc                    \
             localstatedir=${D}/var/lib             \
             install || die

this is how Hallski and I do things (with a tabwidth of 8)

Now take the same piece with a tabwidht of 4:
    make prefix=${D}/usr                        \
         sysconfdir=${D}/etc                    \
         localstatedir=${D}/var/lib                 \
         install || die 

The '\' is not aligned anymore. this is however a simple example, as
other ebuilds gets ripped out of form more.


Greetings,
-- 

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa