[Tinyos-devel] consistency in line terminators

Razvan Musaloiu-E. razvanm at cs.jhu.edu
Mon Jun 9 13:23:10 PDT 2008


Hi!

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Miklos Maroti wrote:

> Hi!
>
>> To summarize, the clean-up that I propose consists of:
>> - convert all sources to unix line terminators
>> - remove the bogus 'tab:' marker
>
> Agreed.
>
>> - convert all the tabs to 8 spaces.
>
> I disagree. Do you want to change 646 files (yes, this is correct)
> just to enforce this? Are we going to ban tabs altogether? How are we
> going to enforce this? Tabs should be allways 8 spaces, but you should
> not force people to use spaces. Just my 2 cents.

It's easier to check that a file contains a tab than to check that the 
intended size for it is different from 8. :P I'm not that eager to 
implement this last one so dropping it is perfectly fine with me. :-)

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Razvan ME


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