regedit: consistent formatting

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On December 8, 2003 02:52 pm, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
>  1) write a tool that checks the source code for correct tabbing and
> rejects the patch if it does not follow THE RULES

Again, not feasible -- I for one edit wine stuff from multiple boxes,
multiple editors, I don't want to have to learn how to setup editors
on every box I move to.

>  2) or even better, write a re-tabulator which produce source code
> following THE RULES (tool that would be applied to all source code on each
> commit).

This is a real bad idea. We had that we trailing whitespace, and it
was a nightmare because CVS would detect that as conflicts so it was
sooo hard to work with: submit, wait for Alexandre to commit, update,
understand/resolve conflitcs. And for large changes, you can only do
cvs up -C, which means you can't keep working until Alexandre commits.
Too nasty for words.

We can argue till the cows come home, but I think we've lost track
of the purpose. Are we trying to make our lives more difficult? If
so, we're on the right track :) Is this 'problem' (that we're creating)
worth dealing with all this complication? For what purpose?

-- 
Dimi.