Re: fix "too much information" bug w/ "info vector" on PowerPC

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Jim Blandy wrote:

> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:42:31PM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
> >
> > > - I'm not sure why the indentation in your patch is weird, but in any
> > >  case, there seems to be a preference for using spaces in new code,
> > >  not tabs.
> > Er, really?  GNU convention is tabs, as far as I know.
>
> I don't see anything in the coding standards, but maybe I've missed
> something.
>
> Avoiding tab characters makes patches read normally and avoids
> problems with different tab sizes.  And all the popular editors can be
> configured to make the 'tab' command use either.  Most of the other
> Free software projects I know of have a convention of using spaces.
I think we're still on the tab standard, despite its flaws. I think
eCos folks decided to go the spaces way, and got hassled by
everybody else at Cygnus for it. :-)

Stan