On Jul 16, 2008, at 16:08, Uwe Schwartz wrote: > Rainer Müller schrieb: > >> Uwe Schwartz wrote: >> >>> are there any conventions about tabs and whitespaces in Portfile? >>> I couldn't find any hints in the wiki or in the guide. >> >> http://guide.macports.org/#development.practices.portstyle >> >> Additionally, watch out for trailing whitespace - especially when the >> line should end with a backslash. Use 'port lint', it prints a >> warning >> for this. > > 'port lint' is much more convenient than 'portindex'
Some whitespace warnings that port lint currently prints will be removed or will only appear when using a switch: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/14799 port lint does not currently warn if you use tabs in your portfile, though spaces are preferred instead of tabs. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
