[Freeciv-Dev] Re: coding standard patch

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> I agree with you that tabs are bad, BUT indent uses tabs. Only
> new(est) version of GNU-indent has an option to use spaces instead.
>
> If you really want to have them gone I have no problem doing a s/\t/     /
> over the tree in regular intervalls.

This has the side-effect of genereting completely unnecessary patch
conflicts, so I'm against that. At least as long as we still have huge
patches waiting to go in. I would much rather have a ban against
introducing new tabs in the source code, and then eventually the number of
tabs in the code will slide towards zero as parts of the code gets
rewritten and patched.

Developers that know how to run indent over their patches can also be
expected to upgrade their indent to a newer version.

Yours
Per

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