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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: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:24:21
Message-Id: 201106281220.57634.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] SHA256 and indention in metadata.xml by Peter Volkov
1 On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 08:02:03 Peter Volkov wrote:
2 > В Сбт, 25/06/2011 в 13:24 -0400, Mike Frysinger пишет:
3 > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:23, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
4 > > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:16 PM, justin wrote:
5 > > >> Another question, do we have a rule, how the metadata.xml has to be
6 > > >> indented? Tabs or n spaces?
7 > > >
8 > > > There's no rule, but we should follow the same rule as ebuilds —
9 > > > indentation should be with a tab that's displayed as 4 spaces in
10 > > > editors (no expansion of tabs to spaces).
11 > >
12 > > meh ... let devs do whatever they want
13 >
14 > Why? This looks like perfect case to use standard indentation.
15 > Personally I'd like indentation to be fixed (and I don't really care
16 > how).
17
18 these files are so small/minor, and now we tread into xml territory which has
19 much less standardized indenting and line wrapping rules. it isnt simply a
20 matter of "how much space do i put before an open tag". i really dont see it
21 being a "problem" that needs "solving".
22 -mike

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