From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SsEPW-0008UL-1m for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:42:30 +0200 Received: from azsmga002.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.35]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Jul 2012 07:31:05 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="124781812" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.121.25]) by AZSMGA002.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Jul 2012 07:31:05 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Chris Larson Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:31:04 +0100 Message-ID: <4851908.FI1zozqsjq@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.4 (Linux/3.2.0-26-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.4; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20120720093208.GD3534@jama.jama.net> <1342793560.21788.27.camel@ted> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: Yocto style guide change proposal X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:42:30 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Friday 20 July 2012 07:15:28 Chris Larson wrote: > If you don't see two different types of indentation in one file as > inconsistent, I think you need to look up consistency in a dictionary. You're not wrong - but that's not the point. Personally I'd really prefer we had four spaces everywhere; I'm not entirely sure why we chose this convention in the first place. However, it's the convention we have now and changing it has serious implications - almost every recipe will have to be changed; backporting changes to stable releases will be made more difficult; submitted patches crossing the switch will be difficult to apply, history will be polluted, etc. Changing this is not a small undertaking. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre