22 Feb
2006
22 Feb
'06
9:29 p.m.
VMiklos wrote:
if we use tabs, everyone is free to set tabspace to 2/8/etc in his favorite editor. if we use spaces, this freedom is lost
Sure. But the lines you modified with your patches were not restricting this freedom in any way. It was possible to change tab stop width without breaking the indentation... The indentation I used is what GNU indent defines as "continue-at-parentheses" (tabs at the beginning of a line until reaching the code block, then shift it with some spaces to get the proper alignment).
if you think the current "homogeneous but cosmetics allowed" style at pacman is not proper, then let's discuss this
My question about coding rules was targeted at Judd. I don't have any strong opinion about this topic. -- Aurelien