Bruno Haible <[email protected]> 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
