Hello, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 08/21/2009 10:46 AM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: >> These projects have standardized their tab widths. Why shouldn't Fedora? > > Why should it? Because some editors are unable to grok tabs in usable > ways and because some newbies are unable to cope with it? I was the reviewers who complained about the usage of a non-standard tab width. Please let me explain my intention behind this: 1. Spec files are not to be meant to be read only by the original packager. The should be in a format that _any_ packager can easily read and understand them. This is a quite generic requirement to all kind of communication. ;-) The current FPG cover this by requiring the legibility of the spec file. IMHO this does not include only meaningful comments, indentations etc., but also the overall formatting when the file is viewed within an editor. 2. If the file was written with a specific (non-standard, please see below) tab width, it is quite hard to read. Sure, it is possible to change the tab width in the editor, but the question is: to what? So in order to display the spec file correctly it is necessary to guess the used tab width. I really consider this as not very practical. 3. It is correct that different projects use different tab widths. However, there are some widths which are more often used and so became more or less "standard". IMHO vi(m), (x)emacs and even the web browser uses 8 chars tab width per default. (During reviews I use quite often the browser just to have a first glance a the provided spec file...) I definitively second that proposal. Best regards, Christian -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
