Re: Issue 1707 in lilypond: add python -tt to build system

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Comment #2 on issue 1707 by percival.music.ca: add python -tt to build  
system
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1707

hmm, I must admit that 10 minutes of looking didn't turn out the kind of  
python invocation of scripts I was expecting.  Python files are copied  
across to out/ using stepmake/bin/install.py (why isn't that in  
scripts/build/ ?  I have no clue.  I had no idea we even had a  
stepmake/bin/ directory!), but invoking that script with -tt would only  
change that the install.py script uses correct tabs.

Now, there's no harm in adding -tt to the default $(PYTHON) command, but  
that would only catch errors in something like 25% of our python files.   
OTOH, I'm not too worried about problems in python files.  I'm the worst  
(only?) offender in the past 5 years to use tabs, and I'm reforming.  As  
long as we have an official policy of not using tabs (and can therefore  
reject any patch which introduces them), I don't think we need to get all  
fussed about this issue.



Let's leave this as a potential "introduction to our build system" in case  
there's a Frog that wants to play with an easy item, but otherwise ignore  
it.  If nobody's touched this in a year or two, we can mark it invalid.