[bitbake-devel] [OE-core] PLEASE READ: Major change landing shortly (python whitespace)

[Burton, Ross]

On 18 July 2012 11:06, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I put a proposal to the TSC, that we have bitbake warn/error whenever it
> finds tab characters in any python function. The advantage of this is
> that we give the user a clear definitive error. The downside is that
> we'll have to go through all the metadata and scrub it for the problem.

Have you ran that warning over oe-core to check that there are not any
legitimate uses of \t, not for indentation but inside strings?  I
can't think of any realistic use but you never know (construct a
Makefile in a python function?).

Ross