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

Sandro Santilli strk at kbt.io
Tue Sep 11 14:39:35 PDT 2018


On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 06:11:19PM +0200, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Regina,
> 
> On Mon, 10. Sep 2018 at 12:45:37 -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
> > 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 :)
> 
> There's only 1TBS. ;)
> 
> To me it's more important that the formatting is consistent than whether tabs
> or any number of spaces are used.
> 
> In QGIS we use astyle in a client side pre-commit hook and have a test that
> verifies that is has been run (ie. another run doesn't change anything and PRs
> that fail it get sorted out).

I often cite QGIS for that, it is an effective way to keep the
style conformant. Only problem, when I tried it on PostGIS, was
that astyle was in C++, we don't have such problem here.

--strk;


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