[pypy-dev] Re: whitespace policies

[holger krekel]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 19:52 +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
> hpk at trillke.net (holger krekel) writes:
> > 2. you should use editor settings that scrap trailing 
> >    whitespace on source code and documentation 
> >
> > Obviously, the second option should be accompanied by
> > a monster-commit changing all those lines in one go.  
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> Option 2), with the added detail of running the reindent.py script
> over the entire codebase every so often (as Tim does for Python).

Is there a reason to not run it more or less immediately after 
each checkin?  This way a commiter could be appropriately 
embarassed. 

> I've wanted to do this for ages, but have always been too chicken :)

same here, even more after trying it for fun on the pypy-tree. 

cheers,
 
    holger