Re: untabify, coding standards

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Is this style something we want to try push into the GNU Coding Standard
>> and/or into the GNU indent default?
>> 
>> I don't care much about coding styles conventions, but I care about
>> consistency.  Moving away from the default style of GNU indent in gnulib
>> seems a bit inconsistent to me.  I can't find anything about tab vs
>> space in the coding standard though.  Thoughts?
>
> I think it's too early for pushing this into the GNU Coding Standards.
> Big code repositories like GCC and glibc are still using tabs. coreutils
> and gnulib are just the spearhead. At this point in time, we would
> experience more resistance than approval.
>
> It's similar to the use of UTF-8 for ChangeLog files: In 2000, most
> people would have been opposed to it. In 2007 or so, even the Emacs
> ChangeLog switched to UTF-8. Nowadays, no one even thinks about it
> any more.
>
> If you care about consistency, you can switch your projects to the
> spaces-only style soon. Yes, it's probably easier to switch your
> habit once for all projects, than to continue using different
> habits for different projects.

Fair enough!  I'll probably switch some of my projects if it appears
feasible.

/Simon