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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>
To: George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org>, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:34:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308032135.01978.stuart@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308031327.26379.george@gentoo.org>

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On Sunday 03 August 2003 9:27 pm, George Shapovalov wrote:
> Well, looks like there is no one around who remembers this thing, so I
> guess I'll chime in:

;-)

> While not really used nowadays, lintool is still a
> usefull tool, albeit unmaintained :(.  

As a new developer, I've been told repeatedly that lintool is not worth using.  
Heck, it even says that in the Ebuild howto on the website, iirc.

> There has been a discussion of this issue, I believe over a year ago
> already. It has been decided that this indeed is a serious issue, worth
> being brought into the policy (main reason I beleive was to settle the
> never-ending debates). everybody agreed that it should be either all spaces
> or all tabs (I hope nobody would want it otherwise nowadays?)

Urgh ;-)

Although, I will admit, that most ebuilds are trivial enough to be indented 
using just tabs.

> Oh, should I mention that I am on a tabbed side ;)?

I'd never have guessed ;-)

> Above makes this a non-issue, and as I described in the beginning we do
> have that enforceent and we put it in place upon discussing alternatives
> and on purpose.

Second urgh.

What's next - forcing people to use emacs over vi, or vice versa? ;-)  
Seriously, I refer you back to my previous post about why engineers use 
coding standards.

Best regards,
Stu
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-03 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-03  2:29 [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  2:34 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  2:38   ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  2:50     ` Kumba
2003-08-03  3:04       ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03 15:23         ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-03 18:44           ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03 15:10     ` Mamoru KOMACHI
2003-08-03 15:40       ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-03 16:23         ` Mamoru KOMACHI
2003-08-03 16:27       ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-08-03 17:04         ` Mamoru KOMACHI
2003-08-03 15:30     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-11 13:45     ` Patrick Kursawe
2003-08-11 14:58       ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  5:31   ` Jason A. Mobarak
2003-08-03  4:56     ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03  6:11     ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-03 14:55   ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-03 15:18     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-03 18:07       ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-03 18:48         ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03 18:53           ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-03 20:27             ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-03 20:34               ` Stuart Herbert [this message]
2003-08-03 22:15                 ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-03 22:56                   ` Don Seiler
2003-08-08 15:21                     ` Anthony de Boer
2003-08-08 15:33                       ` Marius Mauch
2003-08-08 18:25                       ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-08 19:16                         ` Douglas Russell
2003-08-08 20:12                           ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-08 23:01                             ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-10  2:58                             ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-03 22:19                 ` Aron Griffis
     [not found]             ` <20030803223541.05d10e90.spider@gentoo.org>
2003-08-03 20:43               ` Stuart Herbert

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