[Tinyos-devel] consistency in line terminators

Aurélien Francillon aurelien.francillon at inrialpes.fr
Mon Jun 9 14:33:35 PDT 2008


Razvan Musaloiu-E. a écrit :
> 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. :-)
> 

Yes, it probably does not makes any sense to fix 600 files for "tab 
correctness" but it would be nice to specify it into the proper TEP 
(together with CRLF/LF ) such that future files edits are consistent ...

Cheers
Aurélien



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