Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 43813 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2000 14:35:04 -0000 Received: from e23.nc.us.ibm.com (32.97.136.229) by 63.211.145.10 with SMTP; 6 Jan 2000 14:35:04 -0000 Received: from southrelay02.raleigh.ibm.com (southrelay02.raleigh.ibm.com [9.37.3.209]) by e23.nc.us.ibm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA44106 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:19:32 -0600 From: rubys@us.ibm.com Received: from d54mta04.raleigh.ibm.com (d54mta04.raleigh.ibm.com [9.67.228.36]) by southrelay02.raleigh.ibm.com (8.8.8m2/NCO v2.06) with SMTP id JAA42526 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:33:37 -0500 Received: by d54mta04.raleigh.ibm.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 8525685E.004FFADC ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:33:35 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IBMUS To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Message-ID: <8525685E.004FFA12.00@d54mta04.raleigh.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:23:43 -0500 Subject: RE: example (spaces vs. tabs) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Conor MacNeill wrote: >Perhaps to try and close this issue, I suggest the committers vote on >whether to tighten the coding conventions to mandate use of spaces and >prohibit tabs. Is that the appropriate process? Caveats: 1) Existing code is "grandfathered", i.e., no massive conversion/checkin is planned 2) People are encouraged, but not required, to convert tabs to spaces when making small changes to existing code. With these caveats, let me cast my vote: +1 - Sam Ruby