[geos-devel] TABS or SPACES - ALL DEVELOPERS and PSC Vote - MOTION PASSED 4 spaces

Regina Obe lr at pcorp.us
Tue Sep 11 15:54:09 PDT 2018


Didn't hear any screaming or objections - so proclaiming MOTION PASSED 
Vicky want to go ahead with your change?  Remember one big gorilla commit :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Regina Obe [mailto:lr at pcorp.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 1:43 PM
> To: 'GEOS Development List' <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: RE: [geos-devel] TABS or SPACES - ALL DEVELOPERS and PSC Vote
> 
> > On 9/11/18 6:44 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:15:25PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > >> Same. 2-spaces hurts my little brain.
> > > I'm happy as long as you give me a recipe to make my editor
> > > (vim) automatically use what we choose AND `make check` ensures any
> > > future change stick with what was choosen.
> > >
> > > Note I'd like to keep the 80 cols limit on line width which with
> > > current naming can easily become close-to-impossible with too many
> > > spaces. This also means if we use tabs we want them to be rendered
> > > by a determined number of spaces, or it would be impossible to
> > > determine the 80 cols limit ...
> > >
> > > Go Vicky go !
> >
> 
> How is this for a  compromise?
> 
> 1) We got with 4 spaces
> 2) 120 cols
> 3) Get strk a new monitor and also rescue him from his cave.
> 4) Vicky makes the commit since she wanted spaces and sets editor config
> accordingly.
> 
> This would apply to files - .h, .cpp, .c, .inl, .in (that are ins for C and C++), .vc
> (should be windows linebreak I believe though not sure it much matters these
> days)
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina
> 




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