[QGIS-Developer] QGIS project maintainability, forms and styles, xml verbosity

[Emma Hain]

Thanks John, Thomas and Greg
Sorry for the mix-up in thanks John lol
I have noted this in our files

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 at 21:28, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> John Stevenson - BGS via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
> writes:
>
> > The code below uses `canonicalize` to fix the ordering issue, and now
> > we can see the actual changes between files in our GitLab repo.
>
> I have run into similar issues with another project that outputs to
> json.
>
> I think it's a bug for the same semantic value to have a varying text
> representation, and (not relevant here I think) that it's a bug for the
> output not to have nice whitespace formatting.  It should be diffable
> and nerd readable (even if not "human readable").
>
> I would therefore be in favor of qgis itself sorting things into some
> canonical order.
>
>

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