(ref: http://www.bikeshed.com/) I love little discussions like this because: A) The people involved generally feel very strongly about the issue in question and get offended when you point out that, in the greater scheme of things, 6 billion other people could genuinely give a damn about the issue at all. B) They eat time and energy far better devoted to issues that some meaningful fraction of that 6 billion people actually do care about, thus deferring the need to grapple with problems that are actually hard to solve. However: C) Given the fundamental truth of propositions (A) and (B) (which even the most passionate participants are aware of, if only subconsciously), the discussion generally dies unsettled until some reasonable amount of time passes and it can be "reasonably" revived again, only to go through the cycle anew. Therefore, I would like to respectfully suggest that we jump straight to (C) and simply decide that this has already run its course early and move on before everyone's mailbox fills up with bikeshed paint. :-) - Jordan On Mar 15, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Paul Guyot wrote:
On Mar 15, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
There were not that many participants. I tried to put up a fight in favor of keeping hard tabs, but I was the only one. :-) Upon further consideration, I don't think I really care that much one way or another, and I do recognize that a whole class of spacing issues we currently have in Portfiles would not occur if we did not use tabs. So, let's take 'em out!
The old rule was that Porfiles should be internally consistent.
That was it - and I don't think it's so bad to let portfile authors handle things however they want as long as the result isn't totally unreadable for everything else.
So, my vote would be for continuing the old policy and not getting all whitespace-crazy on everything (it makes sense to have one whitespace convention for base/ code, though).
I concur.
Paul
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