On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:15:58AM -0400, Daniel J. Luke 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).
Indeed. I think dictating spacing will be a headache for current and potential maintainers and result in fewer people joining in. Adding a suggestion in the Portfile maintenance doc about documenting the tab/space width used would help others figure out what the spacing is w/o having to try a variety of possibilities, should they need to adjust a Portfile at some time. -eric