[oe] [PATCH] libsdl-native: Convert to new style staging, remove do_stage

Graeme Gregory dp at xora.org.uk
Tue Sep 7 06:32:50 UTC 2010


 On 07/09/10 07:32, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2010/9/7 Graham Gower <graham.gower at gmail.com>:
>> On 6 September 2010 21:49, Noor Ahsan <noor_ahsan at mentor.com> wrote:
>>> * Remove do_stage ()
>>> * Replace tabs with 8 spaces in do_configure
>> I see that spaces and not tabs are the OE policy, but I can't lay my
>> eyes on anything that says how many spaces are preferred. I see a lot
>> of recipes and examples using 4 space indentation (and most others use
>> a tab). Is this something that people care about?
>>
>> -Graham
>>
>> PS: Personally I'm a tab man, not a spaceman.
> Afaik it is not defined.
> There is http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Styleguide
> which only says "#
> # Use spaces for indentation as developers tends to use different
> amount of spaces per one tab. "
> now we're just using a different amount of spaces :-)
>
> (actually using different # of spaces for a tab is not that bad as
> long as you stick to tabs only. That is why the linux kernel requires
> indentig by tabs).
>
> Frans (who also likes tabs, if only because it is the default in vi
> with autoindent (and yeah, I know you can change that))
>
Informally the policy has always been we dont care tabs or spaces as
long as its consistent within the same recipe.

Graeme





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