[MPlayer-dev-eng] Indentation style (was: [PATCH] Fix useless dependencies in the stream lib)

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Wed Apr 9 10:15:52 CEST 2008


On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:51:50AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> 
> The problem you're trying to solve seems to be that following varying
> per-file styles is hard, and you think adding tags would make following
> them easier. I think that goes in the wrong direction in making such
> varying styles more official and important to follow. I think the
> difficulty of following them is better solved by not following them when
> it causes significant extra work. Use 4 space indent and people should
> be able to read it even if it doesn't exactly match what is in the rest
> of the file.

That sums it up nicely for me.  Albeu, your goal is noble, but you could
instead try to convince people to go for a single consistent style.
AFAICT at least you, Reimar, Uoti and myself would be in favor.

Diego



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