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On Sunday 03 August 2003 9:27 pm, George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> Well, looks like there is no one around who remembers this thing, so I |
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> guess I'll chime in: |
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;-) |
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> While not really used nowadays, lintool is still a |
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> usefull tool, albeit unmaintained :(. |
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As a new developer, I've been told repeatedly that lintool is not worth using. |
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Heck, it even says that in the Ebuild howto on the website, iirc. |
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> There has been a discussion of this issue, I believe over a year ago |
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> already. It has been decided that this indeed is a serious issue, worth |
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> being brought into the policy (main reason I beleive was to settle the |
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> never-ending debates). everybody agreed that it should be either all spaces |
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> or all tabs (I hope nobody would want it otherwise nowadays?) |
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Urgh ;-) |
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Although, I will admit, that most ebuilds are trivial enough to be indented |
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using just tabs. |
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> Oh, should I mention that I am on a tabbed side ;)? |
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I'd never have guessed ;-) |
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> Above makes this a non-issue, and as I described in the beginning we do |
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> have that enforceent and we put it in place upon discussing alternatives |
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> and on purpose. |
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Second urgh. |
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What's next - forcing people to use emacs over vi, or vice versa? ;-) |
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Seriously, I refer you back to my previous post about why engineers use |
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coding standards. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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