From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2647 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Aug 2003 20:37:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 21634 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2003 20:37:04 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert Reply-To: stuart@gentoo.org To: George Shapovalov , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:34:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200308022229.12533.vapier@gentoo.org> <200308031953.03414.stuart@gentoo.org> <200308031327.26379.george@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200308031327.26379.george@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_1HXL/Qx8ulIuZ16"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308032135.01978.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds X-Archives-Salt: abef6adb-a2fb-4268-bc94-ce5be0dcd429 X-Archives-Hash: 05bb6833eec9c240ae51126ba75a6fa0 --Boundary-02=_1HXL/Qx8ulIuZ16 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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 :(. =20 As a new developer, I've been told repeatedly that lintool is not worth usi= ng. =20 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 spac= es > 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= =20 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? ;-) =20 Seriously, I refer you back to my previous post about why engineers use=20 coding standards. Best regards, Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_1HXL/Qx8ulIuZ16 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/LXH1DC+AuvmvxXwRAiseAKC3utj4zUTLoMPHYNxhXV2DWQtfTACfQj0h SHkccJCs68endROexALUp/o= =7pUB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_1HXL/Qx8ulIuZ16--