[Python-Dev] Running Clang 2.7's static analyzer over the code base

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Le Mon, 03 May 2010 16:11:53 -0700, Brett Cannon a écrit :
>>> And in reply to Benjamin's question about the whitespace, I guess it
>>> actually doesn't matter. More important to clean up in py3k.
>> Would it be finally time to standardize all C files on a 4-spaces 
>> indentation rule?
>>
>> I understand the "svn annotate" argument, but we edit code far more often 
>> than we annotate it. Also, it seems "svn ann -x -w" would ignore 
>> whitespace changes.
>>
> Let's not forget to consider what Hg can do, since that represents the
> future.

I think Mercurial chokes in the light of white space inconsistencies
just as much as Subversion. One reason for not converting in the past
was also that it would break merging, unless that whitespace
normalization is applied to all these branches.

Regards,
Martin