----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephane Bailliez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 00:29 Subject: RE: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types E numeratedAttribute.java
> > I'm totally 150% OK for this but I'd would also like us to focus on having > the code cleaned up to be homogeneous and respect the Jakarta coding lines > especially considering braces, indentation and naming. There has been > lengthy debate about this on general and commons about how anarchic was > starting to be the code in Jakarta and even though in Ant a lot of code has > been done by non-committers this does not prevent us from having severe > guidelines and respect them. I am +1 on this. Sometimes when I look at tasks, especially optional ones, I am sorely tempted to hit the jstyle button in jedit to sort out their structure, but that breaks the 'be consistent' rule. > I think Stefan wanted to have severe guidelines about task submission and > has been -1, so this is somewhat contradictory. Starting with severe > guidelines at the beginning and maybe relax with time is exactly the same as > put everything in private and everything final and relax when possible. No ? > > If we do this then we have to be more responsive about user willing to > integrate Ant. > For instance I think we did not take much in account the critics from Jeff > McGuire about integrating Ant w/ Eclipse. > > For the sake of clarity and so that it is crystal-clear I will commit a > document about these coding guidelines ASAP as a starting point. Comments ? Stick the stuff in ant_task_guidelines.html; there isnt much on coding practices there at all. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
