On 1/18/06, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the goal is to be able to run a tool to get checkstyle 'conformance' > wouldn't it be better to tailer checkstyle to a tool anyone could grab, > rather than tailoring it to what IDEA can do? Don't get me wrong, I love > IDEA and I'd be quite happy to be able to use it for this, but not > everyone has IDEA... > > +1 in principle, though.
Jetbrains has donated licenses for the use of any and all ASF committers, so anyone with write privilges can indeed grab IDEA and use it to reformat the code on demand. Moreover, the reformatter is very clever and doesn't "touch" files that do not need reformatting. Any one can bring the codebase up to date in a matter of seconds (literally) and commit back on the files that needed style fixes. The important thing would be to continue to follow the longstanding rule to separate style-change commnits from code-change commits. As I understand, WebWork 2.2 is styled using the factory-default IDEA settings. If we want that codebase to pass CheckStyle in the future, eventually, we will need to conform one or the other. But, yes, I'm thinking that it might be less work to conform CheckStyle to IDEA than the other way around. The goal should be to ensure that a uniform coding style is consistently applied. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
