On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:59:25PM -0400, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:40, Gilles Sadowski <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> > wrote: > > > Hi. > > > >>> > >>>>> [...] > >>>>> > >>>>> The tools are there, but you have to tell people that they _must_ use > >>>>> them. > >>>> > >>>> Commons has already enough rules and process. As long as the releases > >>>> are have clean code I wouldn't be too anal about the commits in > >>>> between. > >>> > >>> I think that the main disagreement is here. Source code must be a clear > >>> read > >>> for the _developers_. To put it bluntly, I don't care that the releases > >>> have > >>> cleanly formatted code, as almost nobody is going to read those packaged > >>> sources! > > And another thing: the formatting /is/ important in released sources > because, again, this is what most users will see in their debuggers. > Have you seen some of the JRE sources? Some files are a mess, others > have blank lines in the middle of headers. Others look like they were > entered by a prisoner blinded in the noon day sun after spending a > month in the hole with bread and water ration and then given a stick > of butter for lunch.
It sounds like I were arguing against well formatted sources. My point was that sources must _always_ be well formatted, and not _only_ at release. Gilles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
