Consensus on the kdelibs coding style

[David Johnson]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 07:13:33 am Thiago Macieira wrote:
> The major point is actually deciding on the "4 spaces, NO TABS"
> (capitalisation mine, but should be there). Tabs are inherently evil and
> should be banned altogether, to the point of warranting a wide-reaching
> tab-replacement commit (svn can now ignore whitespace changes in
> annotation, git has been able to do it for years).

Of all the style war battles, this is the only one I really care about. Tabs 
are 8 spaces wide by default, yet certain editors insist on one tab per level 
of indent. Almost as evil as tabs is the mixed mode indentation that some 
other editors use.

As for other stylistic rules, I would argue for a more laissez faire approach. 
I would rather have guidelines than commandments.

-- 
David Johnson