> I'm +1 as well. A common style would make development easier. I think > configuration files should be downloadable from commons website. Maybe that > will spare some "good patch but there are some style issues..." replies to > new contributors. ;-) >
-1 we've let each component developers the freedom to choice their preferred style. What is the reason to tie down the whole community to a unique style? What will be next? The ASF style? seriously? > >> >> I use IntelliJ so obviously I'd want a style that it can handle. FWIW, >> Jetbrains provides a free license for the full product for open source >> development or you can use the community edition. > > So are you suggesting that everybody should use IntelliJ? I use eclipse and > I'm happy with that (Most of the time ;-) > +1 as well, users have to feel free to choice their preferred IDE - even EMACS/vi if they feel comfortable with it :) -Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Benedikt Ritter <b...@systemoutprintln.de> wrote: > > Am 18.02.2012 um 19:06 schrieb Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>: > >> >> On Feb 18, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: >> >>> Le 18/02/2012 17:27, Gary Gregory a écrit : >>>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 11:00, Oliver Heger <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Am 18.02.2012 15:25, schrieb Ralph Goers: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:20 AM, Luc Maisonobe<luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Le 17/02/2012 23:30, Ralph Goers a écrit : >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> That seems like way too much effort for very little benefit. In >>>>>>>>>> fact, >>>>>>>>>> when I created the checkstyle configuration I started from the one >>>>>>>>>> used by >>>>>>>>>> Commons Configuration and then tweaked it to shut up a bunch of the >>>>>>>>>> "errors" I didn't care about and that seemed to have been the >>>>>>>>>> convention of >>>>>>>>>> the existing code base. I'd prefer that all of commons use the same >>>>>>>>>> checkstyle configuration. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> +1, that would be great, we could put it in the parent POM and be >>>>>>>>> done with >>>>>>>>> it once and for all. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Are we sure all components use the same style ? >>>>>>> The checkstyle.xml file for [math] origin has evolved its own way, >>>>>>> partly when the mantissa library has been merged. I am pretty sure it is >>>>>>> not compatible with other ones. >>>>>> >>>>>> That was kind of the point for using a single checkstyle config. Why >>>>>> should the various projects use different rules? >>>>> >>>>> For instance, [configuration] has a different coding style than [lang]. >>>>> Personally, I do not prefer one format over the other. I am +1 for a >>>>> commons wide checkstyle policy. However, doing the reformatting is >>>>> probably a pain. >>>> >>>> We can pick a format that IDEs can perform automatically. >>> >>> The style we use for [math] has an eclipse configuration counterpart at >>> <http://people.apache.org/~luc/Apache-commons.xml> which does almost >>> everything automatically. There is only one gltich I was not able to >>> fix: the indent size of the "throws" statement in method signatures >>> which cannot be set to any value on which checkstyle and eclipse could >>> agree. So when we do automatic formatting with eclipse, these lines are >>> flagged by checkstyle as having wrong indentation. I did not check since >>> one or two years, though, so there may be a setting for this now. > >> >> Ralph >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
