Re: removing the rule-name-length limit (was Re: svn commit: r125722)

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel Quinlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes: ah, I didn't post examples of what the new formatting looks like -- here it is in report_safe 1: The example I posted *was* report_safe 1, so the new formatting does not look like that at all. Now, I can't find any agreement in bugzilla that those

Re: removing the rule-name-length limit (was Re: svn commit: r125722)

2005-01-20 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Quinlan writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes: ah, I didn't post examples of what the new formatting looks like -- here it is in report_safe 1: The example I posted *was* report_safe 1, so the new formatting does not look

Re: removing the rule-name-length limit (was Re: svn commit: r125722)

2005-01-20 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:43:52PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote: OK -- I'm happy to go for: - relax the description limit to allow 2-line descs - keep 22-char limit on rulenames - except for T_-prefix names --lint should really be treating these limits as suggestions, not errors.

Re: removing the rule-name-length limit (was Re: svn commit: r125722)

2005-01-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:53:51PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: Sure. IIRC, 22 was somewhat arbitrary, but worked well given the maximum length of lines and length of most descriptions. As I recall, it was 22 for rule name, plus 50 for description == 72. Add in another couple for spacing, the