Hi, Yup a vote seems reasonable on this sensible holy war question :-) I will do that.
2012/8/27 Darren Shepherd <dar...@godaddy.com>: > Yes there are style files for Eclipse. But I'm pretty opposed to > changing the default style of Eclipse. The default style of Eclipse is > pretty darn close to the Sun java coding standard put out in 99 that > most java projects seems to follow. Maybe Apache has their own > subculture, but in general I've seen most java projects follow that > standard in some loose fashion. Requiring people to change the default > style just seems to end up with having to police the code style more. > And unless you start a project from fresh with a tool like checkstyle, > it doesn't help. > > Is it possible to move back to tabs? Can we have a vote or something? > My immediate problem is that all of the my patches I have in my queue to > submit just got invalidated because they just all look like conflicts > now. > > Darren > > > > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: maven: why move tabs -> ws? >> From: Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> >> Date: Sun, August 26, 2012 11:59 pm >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> >> >> 2012/8/27 Darren Shepherd <dar...@godaddy.com>: >> > Olivier, >> > >> > Why is there a strong preference of white space over tabs for the >> > pom.xml's? I noticed you changed all of them. The thing is, when I >> > created all the pom files I actually created them with 2 spaces instead >> > of tabs (that's my vim settings). When I start using the pom's in >> > Eclipse it donned on me that the Eclipse default is to use tabs over >> > spaces and thus when you go to edit the pom's in Eclipse you end up with >> > poorly formatted garbage. So I actually went through and reformatted >> > everything with tabs. >> > >> > Is there a strong standard to use spaces instead of tabs? I kinda >> > thought the java world (and xml world) seemed to prefer tabs in general. >> Perso all opensource projects I'm involved @apache and others use *only* >> spaces. >> So maybe I'm maniac :-) >> >> A more general question I have: is there any style files for ide ? (at >> least eclipse and idea). >> >> > >> > Darren >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Olivier Lamy >> Talend: http://coders.talend.com >> http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy -- Olivier Lamy Talend: http://coders.talend.com http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
