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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SHA256 and indention in metadata.xml
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:30:37
Message-Id: 201106271822.30282.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] SHA256 and indention in metadata.xml by Nirbheek Chauhan
1 On Sunday, June 26, 2011 12:51:53 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
2 > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 13:51, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
4 > >> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > >>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:23, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
6 > >>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:16 PM, justin wrote:
7 > >>>>> Another question, do we have a rule, how the metadata.xml has to be
8 > >>>>> indented? Tabs or n spaces?
9 > >>>>
10 > >>>> There's no rule, but we should follow the same rule as ebuilds —
11 > >>>> indentation should be with a tab that's displayed as 4 spaces in
12 > >>>> editors (no expansion of tabs to spaces).
13 > >>>
14 > >>> meh ... let devs do whatever they want
15 > >>
16 > >> Didn't I just say there's no rule?
17 > >
18 > > and if you keep reading, you'll see that you also said "devs should XXX"
19 >
20 > should != must.
21
22 and all i said was "devs should do whatever they want"
23
24 > I understand that you're touchy about rules after the whole ChangeLog
25 > mess, but must we debate the nuances of the English language and
26 > contribute to the massive amount of pre-existing bikeshed noise on
27 > this mailing list?
28
29 i'm really not. i dont why you read more into it than is actually there. if
30 anything, your responses seem a bit more touchy.
31 -mike

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