Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > Adrian Custer a écrit : > >> Some of the pom.xml files don't start with an "<? xml ..." line, some >> are utf-8 others western, some (see ext/xml/pom.xml) have a comment tag >> at the top with some kind of svn auto-magic substitution. A classic mess >> that I'd like to cleanup. I propose that each file start with the >> following (between the ******* lines): >> > > I'm in favor of the proposed cleanup. > Me too. Also note that during the release process, maven attacks all of the pom files in some way. I think this often strips all of the comments out, but it may be interesting to look at the generated results. (They would be on the 2.2.x branch) > > >> However, note that the lines will be 80 characters wide, reduced here >> for mailing. >> > > I tend to find 80 characters a little bit short. Back in prehistoric Geotools > time (around 2002) we agreed about 100 characters wide for java source files. > I > admit that this convention seems to be somewhat abandonned in practice (our > lines are often longer)... > > The rational for 80 character lines was printing. Now it is email (I don't > think > that many peoples will want to print Geotools code base). But to me, short > lines > sometime make them more difficult to read, we it force us to split a > "natural" > line. Do I'm the only one to feel like that?
For code, I do prefer a longer line. I have a widescreen laptop, so I am probably a little biased here. For text, I prefer no longer than 80 characters. Jody Garnett wrote: > Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > >> Just thinking about it... The pom.xml file in the root directory list a lot >> of >> developers. I believe that this list is somewhat obsolete, and probably >> doesn't >> have much sense since the root directory doesn't contains any code. Should >> we >> delete all developers listed in the root directory, and list them only in >> the >> pom.xml files in specific modules? >> >> > Thinking, initially James rounded up everyone in the community - wanted > a single list punted out from the > maven cite target. > > Perhaps it is better to make this list be the PMC, because they have the > responsibility for the build system. > > What do you think? > I would agree with this. And then module maintainers/developers could go onto the other modules themselves. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
