* Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild indentation (tabs vs. spaces) fascism ;^)
@ 2002-04-27 22:40 99% ` William McArthur
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From: William McArthur @ 2002-04-27 22:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> 1. What makes tabbed indentation in ebuilds so much better than
> indentation with spaces? I know *plenty* of reasons *against* using
> tab characters, but I must be missing something obvious, because I
> know no reasons in favor of tabs.
I have no preference of one over the other but I prefer one over both.
> 2. Even if it turns out tabs are somehow better than spaces, why do
> we want to be so fascist[1][2] about it? Why don't we let the ebuild
> maintainer to decide which approach suits his philosophy, editor and
> habits? We can still require that all indents are 4 spaces wide; I'm
> only talking about tabs/spaces issue.
Because any large project must maintain a level of consistencey. While
tab vs spaces is a minor issue it is part of a larger whole and as such
is important. My mother used to pound in to me: "Mind your pennies and
your dollars will take care of themselves." I don't know who she was
quoting but the same logic applies here.
Where there isn't any place I know of the specificly spells out the
tab/space usage in an ebuild if you look at /usr/portage/skel.ebuild you
will see that tabs are uses.
> Footnotes:
> [1] Talking about bulk force-tabbifying ebuilds.
> [2] Please note the smiley in the subject line before you stone me
> for my choice of words.
Sandy McArthur
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