Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I've asked the upstream to provide proper source code, but so far he > effectively refused to do that, although it seems to be a very simple > operation to perform. I'm repeating this since it was buried in a footnote in a probably pointless subthread. There's no particular reason why a development environment for java or a similar language would need to include whitespace in the source files it saves. The whitespace can be calculated and displayed on the fly in the editor, so why bother writing it to disk? I think this is not unheard of for some real scheme/lisp editors, and I'd not be suprised if it were true for some editor for java, used by coders in a culture quite different from ours. It explains what you've described of upsteam's behavior pretty well. And choice of editor is not a reason to consider a program non-free, or that whole editor flamewar is about to reach a new level. -- see shy jo
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