Re: [jamboost] Tabs in jam source files

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-07 08:38:46

Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:

> [2003-01-06] David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> Lots of the jam source files in tools/build/jam_src have tabs in them.
>>
>>We know.
>>
>>> Is this a problem? 
>>
>>Not a serious one; those tabs come from the original Perforce files.
>>The parts Boost people wrote is all spaces ;-).
>>
>>> Should we convert them to spaces as we do with other Boost files?
>>
>>Maybe. It'll make big diffs in the CVS if we do it.
>
> Didn't we leave them there so that merging new versions of the Perforce Jam
> would be easier?

Ah, yes.

At this point, it's already getting harder to make merges because
we've diverged quite a bit.

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