[59705] trunk/dports/audio

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 16:02, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2009-10-21 07:00, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> FYI, we prefer to use exclusively spaces for whitespace; don't use  
>> tabs.
>> Any tabs you see in existing portfiles are because we have not yet
>> updated those portfiles to use spaces. (This recommendation only came
>> about a few years ago.)
>
> We do seem to have a majority of space users, and obviously mixing  
> tabs
> and spaces in the same file is frowned upon, but I thought the  
> choice of
> tabs or spaces was up to the maintainer?

My recollection is that we had a long argument about it a few years  
ago on the list, and in the end we agreed to use spaces, not tabs. I  
realize the Guide is not up to date on all things, but on this point,  
it seems accurate:

http://guide.macports.org/#development.practices.portstyle