Looks like the decision has already been made. 2 spaces it is. No problem.
Darren > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: maven: why move tabs -> ws? > From: Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> > Date: Mon, August 27, 2012 8:34 am > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > > > Hi, > Yup a vote seems reasonable on this sensible holy war question :-) > I will do that. > > 2012/8/27 Darren Shepherd <dar...@godaddy.com>: > > Yes there are style files for Eclipse. But I'm pretty opposed to > > changing the default style of Eclipse. The default style of Eclipse is > > pretty darn close to the Sun java coding standard put out in 99 that > > most java projects seems to follow. Maybe Apache has their own > > subculture, but in general I've seen most java projects follow that > > standard in some loose fashion. Requiring people to change the default > > style just seems to end up with having to police the code style more. > > And unless you start a project from fresh with a tool like checkstyle, > > it doesn't help. > > > > Is it possible to move back to tabs? Can we have a vote or something? > > My immediate problem is that all of the my patches I have in my queue to > > submit just got invalidated because they just all look like conflicts > > now. > > > > Darren > > > > > > > > > >> -------- Original Message -------- > >> Subject: Re: maven: why move tabs -> ws? > >> From: Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> > >> Date: Sun, August 26, 2012 11:59 pm > >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > >> > >> > >> 2012/8/27 Darren Shepherd <dar...@godaddy.com>: > >> > Olivier, > >> > > >> > Why is there a strong preference of white space over tabs for the > >> > pom.xml's? I noticed you changed all of them. The thing is, when I > >> > created all the pom files I actually created them with 2 spaces instead > >> > of tabs (that's my vim settings). When I start using the pom's in > >> > Eclipse it donned on me that the Eclipse default is to use tabs over > >> > spaces and thus when you go to edit the pom's in Eclipse you end up with > >> > poorly formatted garbage. So I actually went through and reformatted > >> > everything with tabs. > >> > > >> > Is there a strong standard to use spaces instead of tabs? I kinda > >> > thought the java world (and xml world) seemed to prefer tabs in general. > >> Perso all opensource projects I'm involved @apache and others use *only* > >> spaces. > >> So maybe I'm maniac :-) > >> > >> A more general question I have: is there any style files for ide ? (at > >> least eclipse and idea). > >> > >> > > >> > Darren > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Olivier Lamy > >> Talend: http://coders.talend.com > >> http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy > > > > -- > Olivier Lamy > Talend: http://coders.talend.com > http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
