RE: [Springframework-developer] Any sort of defined policy w/regards to tab/space usage and indentation?

[Trevor C. <pr...@se...>]

I use tabs, but I tend to ignore most formatting, using the "auto-format"
function of Eclipse routinely.  The only problem with this is that it will
mess up CVS if you reformat and submit.

Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: spr...@li...
[mailto:spr...@li...]On Behalf
Of Rod Johnson
Sent: October 1, 2003 3:37 AM
To: Colin Sampaleanu; jue...@we...
Cc: Spring Developers
Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Any sort of defined policy
w/regards to tab/space usage and indentation?


The use of tabs is historical. I'm in the minority of people who use tabs,
so the original code base had tabs and I still use them. I know most people
in open source projects hate tabs, so we might eventually need to change
this.

We did consider the use of Jalopy before check in at one point.

I'd prefer not to mess with the formatting process before 1.0 unless we
really need to.

Regards,
Rod

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Sampaleanu" <col...@ex...>
To: <rod...@in...>; <jue...@we...>
Cc: "Spring Developers" <spr...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:14 PM
Subject: [Springframework-developer] Any sort of defined policy w/regards to
tab/space usage and indentation?


> I notice that most of the codebase in Spring uses hard tabs as opposed
> to spaces for indentation. From looking at some comment text which does
> have some embedded spaces, as far as I can tell the assumption is that
> tabs equate to 4 chars, although most of the code itself does not seem
> to make this assumption?
>
> Is there any sort of project policy or guideline on this? i.e. something
> like 'all code must use hard tabs, and align elements only with tabs',
> etc.? I can hopefully work with any policy, but I'd just like to know if
> one exists... (although if I am forced to use hard tabs I would actually
> have to set up another Eclipse workspace, right now my tab key puts out
> spaces).
>
> fwiw, I have personally found that hard tabs are somewhat of a disaster
> (or at least a problem) in many team environents. In my teams, it's
> generally the one rule we apply with no exceptions, "no hard tabs". The
> problem is that while hard tabs have the ideal benefit of allowing users
> to indent to whatever size they like, in practice people seem to not
> have the discipline to stick to using tabs only, or their editor of the
> moment doesn't allow them to set the tab size to something else easilly,
> so spaces creep in. Once that happens to any extent, the code looks
> broken to anybody else using another tab size.
>
> Regards,
> Colin
>
>
>
>
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