[Freeciv-Dev] Re: coding standard patch

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:22:25AM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 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

This is a always the case.

> 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.

You mean I should upgrade?

        Raimar

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