Any comments on my testing point? What happens if we find a parser/ 
compiler bug triggered by hard tabs? Do we document that a legal LZX  
file may not have hard tabs in it?

On Jun 20, 2006, at 6:05 AM, P T Withington wrote:

> Maybe we should have a poll?
>
> I vote for a pre-commit trigger that prevents tabs, for the reasons  
> I stated.
>
> On 2006-06-19, at 23:58 EDT, Jim Grandy wrote:
>
>> Bad form I understand. Seems like a weak justification for causing  
>> a build break, though -- especially since this was an LZX file and  
>> application developers won't in general keep tabs out of their  
>> source files. Are we doing ourselves a service by only building  
>> and testing against tab-free source files?
>>
>> On Jun 19, 2006, at 5:45 PM, P T Withington wrote:
>>
>>> It's considered bad form to have 'non-canonical' whitespace in  
>>> your repository.  It creates diffs where there are none.  So,  
>>> basically, for the same reason we don't want DOS line endings in  
>>> the repository.
>>>
>>> If I ran the zoo, I would complain about non-empty blank lines  
>>> and whitespace at the end of lines too.
>>>
>>> Most editors have an auto-expand-tabs mode, so this should not be  
>>> hard to obey.  Some editors even flag stray whitespace.
>>>
>>> On 2006-06-19, at 19:25 EDT, Jim Grandy wrote:
>>>
>>>> We either need a pre-commit hook to check for hard tabs, or we  
>>>> need to remove this requirement. Why is it in place, again?
>>>>
>>>>>      [exec] There are hard tabs in ./lps-3.3.x/lps/components/ 
>>>>> incubator/lwzCalendar/lwzEncalendar.lzx
>>>>
>>>> jim
>>>>
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