Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SHA256 and indention in metadata.xml
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:00:08
Message-Id: 4E07737E.3080602@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] SHA256 and indention in metadata.xml by Nirbheek Chauhan
1 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
2 > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Mike Frysinger<vapier@g.o> wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 13:51, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:23, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:16 PM, justin wrote:
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>>> Another question, do we have a rule, how the metadata.xml has to be
13 >>>>>> indented? Tabs or n spaces?
14 >>>>>>
15 >>>>> There's no rule, but we should follow the same rule as ebuilds —
16 >>>>> indentation should be with a tab that's displayed as 4 spaces in
17 >>>>> editors (no expansion of tabs to spaces).
18 >>>>>
19 >>>> meh ... let devs do whatever they want
20 >>>>
21 >>> Didn't I just say there's no rule?
22 >>>
23 >> and if you keep reading, you'll see that you also said "devs should XXX"
24 >>
25 >>
26 > should != must.
27 >
28 > I understand that you're touchy about rules after the whole ChangeLog
29 > mess, but must we debate the nuances of the English language and
30 > contribute to the massive amount of pre-existing bikeshed noise on
31 > this mailing list?
32 >
33 >
34
35 I always understood shall means must. Should means on most occasions.
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)