There was a time I liked them but I eventually came to see Jeremias'
point that they're messy and inaccurate and do more harm than good.
(His RendererFactory, on the other hand, I have *never* liked[1].) A
search in the FOP-DEV archives will give you the arguments pro and con
on the author tags.
Glen
[1] http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html
Cameron McCormack wrote:
Hi evyerone.
Is there a policy on @author tags in source files? I’m about to change
the licence text in Batik’s files according to
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html, which got me thinking
about the @authors. I guess in Batik they’re mostly just an indication
of who created the file (and I think sometimes that’s not even correct,
since it could have been copied over from another file). I guess for an
accurate indication of authorship, the svn logs could be checked.
Cameron
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