Re: untabify bison

[Joel E. Denny]

Hi Akim,

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Le 25 juil. 2011 à 00:45, Joel E. Denny a écrit :
> 
> > A few years ago, Jim Meyering removed tabs from coreutils source code:
> > 
> >  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00219.html
> > 
> > I have long wanted to do the same for bison.  Now, while bison development 
> > is especially slow, seems like a good time to do so without being too 
> > disruptive.
> 
> Sounds good to me.  It's a painful, but nice move.

Thanks.  I pushed it to master and removed candidates/untabify-master.

> > I don't plan to untabify branch-0.5.  That doesn't seem worth the effort.
> 
> I guess you mean 2.5, unless you have some secret plan to send Bison 
> into childhood :)

Oops, yes.  I got it confused with another project.

> Maybe a maintainer-check would be nice to avoid that 
> they creep back in?

Either that or a syntax check in cfg.mk as in coreutils.  I'll keep that 
on my todo list.

By the way, I've also been bothered that Bison's test suite defines many 
m4 macros whose names start with `AT_', which violates Autotest's 
namespace.  In the skeleton, we avoid `m4_' by using `b4_', so it seems we 
should avoid `AT_' by using `BT_'.  Does that sound reasonable?