On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 12:42 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Richard Purdie > <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 06:44 +0300, Laurentiu Palcu wrote: > >> Since we made the SDK relocatable, we have to add this functionality to > >> adt-installer too. > >> > >> Other: > >> - Changed tabs to spaces in the recipe file too. > > > > Shell functions use tabs, python uses spaces. The OE TSC has thought > > long and hard about this and that is the decision. Its not perfect but > > the alternatives will cause more problems than any benefit is worth. > Is there some report/log/styleguide helping me to understand why we > use two tab/space strategies instead of having spaces for all?
This is the style the bulk of the metadata uses. We really don't want patches changing a significant portion of the metadata for cosmetic reasons. It would create a world of pain for people handling/merging patches, a lot of needless code churn and significant problems for people trying to backport changes to older versions of the code base amongst other reasons. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
