[geos-devel] TABS or SPACES - ALL DEVELOPERS and PSC Vote

[Paul Ramsey]

Same. 2-spaces hurts my little brain.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:50 PM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> Okay it appears I'm losing this game.
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> If we end up settling for spaces.  I'd like to request 4 spaces.  Cause
> with 2 spaces I'm too blind to see the space so it doesn't look indented at
> all..
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> *From:* geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Kurt Schwehr
> *Sent:* Monday, September 10, 2018 3:39 PM
> *To:* GEOS Development List <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [geos-devel] TABS or SPACES - ALL DEVELOPERS and PSC Vote
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> +1 to 2 or 4 spaces via a standard clang-format style
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> I use multiple different editors/ides/code formatters and they all want to
> treat tabs differently :|
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> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:57 AM Heiskanen Mika (FMI) <
> Mika.Heiskanen at fmi.fi> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Perhaps you should consider using automatic formatting tools such as
> clang-format?
>
> Just choose the style which is as close to your current style as possible,
> and then
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> make as few changes to your .clang-format file as possible. Automatic
> tools will
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> make your life much easier. Sometimes you will want to disable automatic
> formatting,
>
> and you can do that directly in the source code. You can make your editor
> automatically
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> format the code, and you can add a git-hook to automatically format
> commits.
>
> ​
>
> Mika
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> *From:* geos-devel <geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of
> Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 10, 2018 21:24
> *To:* GEOS Development List
> *Subject:* Re: [geos-devel] TABS or SPACES - ALL DEVELOPERS and PSC Vote
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> My vote is the same as Vicky's - spaces, with indenting using multiples of
> 2.
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> Reasons:
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> - lots of religious discussion on the interweb about tabs vs spaces, but a
> quick read seems to indicate that the spaces camp is more popular
>
> - spaces are more deterministic than tabs
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> - 2 rather than 4 gives more space for code
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>
>
> Martin
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> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 9:45 AM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>
> As many know the GEOS code base is a mess of different formatting.
> Particular with tabs and spaces.
> Our .editorconfig is equally messy in the name of compromise.
>
> I'd like to make a Motion starting with GEOS 3.8 to reformat the .cpp, .h,
> and .c
>
> I think the other extensions are pretty standard and should stay as they
> are.
>
> That said, what would people prefer?
>
> I vote:
>
> TABS
>
>
> Please all PSC and all developers who commit to GEOS voice an opinion.
> We'll count the votes and go with the consensus with each vote counting
> equally.
> If any non-dev, non-PSC have an opinion, feel free to voice an opinion
> keeping note we may not care about your opinion, but might possibly sway
> ours :)
>
> Once done - pramsey or cvvergara or strk will do a 1000 pound commit to
> update all these files (including the editorconfig)
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
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