> > Trailing white space on a non-empty line is another story. > > I think it would be ok to once remove all trailing whitespace from > *non-empty* lines of all Sage library files (preferably right before a > release is made); "rebasing" patches which due to that do no longer > apply is pretty trivial, i.e., can be done automatically.
No ! It is not ! It is a non trivial and painful task for the sage-combinat community. Please remember that - we have a queue of approximatively 250 patches ! - we have approximatively 40/50 contributors, not all of them are using the last version of sage, only a few of them are mercurial advanced users. So please tell me how trivially solve the following problem: We want a robust way to *transparently* do remove whitespace in code and patches for all the 50 contributors of the sage-combinat project, while keeping the compatibility of the queue with the two/three past versions of sage ??? As I already said, each time you did such a change: 1) the coordinators of the sage-combinat project (ie Nicolas and myself) lost two days of work, rebasing the queue and ensuring compatibility with two or three version of sage and solving various contributors problems; 2) each contributors lost upto several hours; 3) but most important to us: as a consequence we lost some contributors. Of course any *working* solution is mostly welcome !!! Cheers, Florent -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
