On 18/03/16 16:03, "Development on behalf of Marc Mutz" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>On Friday 18 March 2016 15:37:40 André Somers wrote: >> Op 18/03/2016 om 09:24 schreef Rutledge Shawn: >> > Forcing it on everyone that way will be controversial, because there >> > is still some leeway in formatting, whereas automation would remove >> > any chance of personal preference, and probably screw up in some >> > cases. But we could at least start by adding the clang-format config >> > file to git so that it’s available for doing this manually. Then in a >> > few years maybe everybody will get used to it enough, and it can be >> > refined enough, to become near-universal. >> >> That's the point: remove the personal preference. Or, make it >> irrelevant. You can format your own code localy on your own system >> however you like. As soon as it gets integrated, it will formatted >> following whatever the standard is anyway. >> >> So no, I do not think there should be leeway for personal differences >> here. Code formatting matters for readability, but it doesn't merrit >> long discussions or wasting time fixing -1's because of wrongly placed >> spaces. If the formatting needs improvement, improve the script doing >> the work, don't do it manually. > >Amen. Fully agree as well. So how do we get to some tool that we can use for the purpose? Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
