On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Alexander Berntsen <alexan...@plaimi.net>wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 19/01/14 23:54, Alec Warner wrote: > > I'm very against add a bunch of extra rules that have to be > > enforced by hand. I want to make it easy to contribute, not more > > difficult. If bob can run a tool that tells him all the things > > that are wrong with his patch, that avoids us having like 1/3rd of > > the conversations on list ;) > Feel free to write a tool for this, or to contribute to any of the > numerous linters and/or editor plug-ins. It would be much appreciated. > > I already prefer pylint, and I think it does cover most of what I want. I am working a pylintrc patch. > As for the difficulty of PEP 257... I have higher hopes for Portage > contributors than getting stuck at that. If I write a patch that makes > most of the docstrings follow it, then they can infer 99% of the > "extra rules" by just looking at the other functions and methods. If > they fail to comply, we can just mention it. If the docstring > formatting is the biggest issue with their patch, I doubt they'll have > a hard time fixing it. > I'm not saying its hard, I'm saying it is a giant waste of time for the list to tell people 'hey your docstrings are wrong' when they can just run a tool to do it ;) -A > - -- > Alexander > alexan...@plaimi.net > http://plaimi.net/~alexander > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlLcZPQACgkQRtClrXBQc7XizAD/Y/Gxc7N6VkgNFWRgP5lmQ84r > UwSne2xaqJYphY9x1TcBAIRpjBHB580edLz/8zpT14lqhW3oOmeMz0pNMB8ssW5d > =+zp5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
