Whatever is the convention adopted, I only implore one thing: Do not allow tabs be the default setting!
By the way, a better integration with checkstyle would be welcome. Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva 2018-04-26 11:32 GMT-03:00 Wade Chandler <[email protected]>: > > > On Mar 16, 2018, at 6:46 AM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Rather than discussing the actual conventions, make sure the IDE can > read and apply settings from Eclipse easily and exactly. > > > > Not sure what this means. Just make sure plugins are able to format the > code? > > > > Still, NetBeans does provide formatting and coding hints. Both should > follow /something/ and I assume Wade was wondering what standard to follow. > > > > Exactly, and too, what makes the most sense. > > > My angle is that NetBeans, just like Eclipse, *is* a de-facto standard. > > I don’t necessarily agree this makes the most sense, but I understand your > point. I guess for me this comes up as a source of friction when working on > projects. Intellij is by far the most used with Eclipse next, and then us. > I think either choosing some agnostic, and well written standard, or using > a real de-facto, sort of like how Spring became one over JEE, being used > more, makes for less friction. > > Perhaps the answer is to provide NBs historical one as it is our code > base, and use that one with our project (NetBeans itself). Then provide > some others which are largely popular such as IntelliJ, Eclipse, Google, > and “Old Sun Java” for users of the IDE to use out of the box. It doesn’t > seem likely teams are going to go, oh, yeah, the few NB IDE users > formatting options win out over everybody else, and too, other projects are > not likely to provide a format which is easy to just import without some > upfront setup on behalf of the NB users. Too, most places in my experience > don’t come up with their own formatting. They generally pick one which > exists and is published. Us providing common ones makes that even easier > for IDE users. > > Thanks for the replies and feedback all. I think I’ll look at this area > soon to see what can be done. > > Wade > > > ======================= > > Wade Chandler > e: [email protected] > t: @wadechandler > https://www.linkedin.com/in/wade-chandler > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
