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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:08:16 -0700
From: Katherine Marsden <kmarsdenderby@sbcglobal.net>
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Hello  derby-dev,

Are we ready to commit to space indentation for Derby as a matter of 
policy? If so I think it would be worthwhile to reformat all the code to 
use space indentation.

I did some experimentation after  the initial network whitespace change 
for DERBY-5896 [1] and I think the reformat can be reasonably 
mitigated.  I think that it would be worthwhile to move to all spaces 
considering all the extra patch round trips  that we have seen over the 
years due to white space errors. All space indentation would help save 
time and confusion in that regard.

I do seem to recall the last time this came up, some people (can't 
remember who) were  somewhat attached to indentation character as a 
matter of personal choice.  I think if we reformat,  we should commit to 
all spaces moving forward.    Does anyone still  feel that they have to 
have tabs or have objections to reformatting all the code to use spaces?

If not I will call a vote and open an issue to reformat everything.

Best

Kathey


[1] 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5896?focusedCommentId=13433270&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13433270