Hi, You're right that development has stopped on the open-source version of Jalopy, and that's a negative. However, Jalopy still works well and IIRC still supports a superset of the Eclipse formatting features.
We don't want to require log4j developers to use a specific IDE, even if it's a free one like Eclipse. OTOH, I think we can live with commits not being well-formatted and only doing the formatting prior to tagging a release, right? If so, i.e. we only require one formatting run prior to tagging a release, then I'm fine with changing to the Eclipse formatter. Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Ceki G�lc� [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 8:33 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [POLL] Source code formatting conventions > > >Hello all, > >We used to rely on jalopy as the indentation tool for log4j. For quite >a long time, the japoly plugin for eclipse did not run with version >3.0 of eclipse. This was a show stopper for many developers, including >myself. It appears that the japoly plugin now supports eclipse >3.0. However, Eclipse 3.0 has built-in support for advanced code >formatting and indentation. > >With jalopy we are not constrained to use Eclipse in order to format >source code. Japoly has support for an Ant task which can format whole >directories, now just a single file. Japoly also supports other IDEs >such as JBuilder, JDeveloper, jEdit or NetBeans. But do we need to >format whole directories or do we need support for JBuilder? I tend to >think that the answer is no. > > >Build-in Eclipse formatting support: > >Advantages: > built-in support > >Disadvantages: > dependent on Eclipse 3.0 > > >Jalopy: >Advantages: > we already use it >Disadvantages: > requires the installation of Jalopy > real development *seems* to have shifted to a propriety alternative > > >How does Eclipse formatting compare with Japoly? Should we consider >switching to Eclipse 3.0 formatting and abandon Jalopy? > > >-- >Ceki G�lc� > > For log4j documentation consider "The complete log4j manual" > ISBN: 2970036908 http://www.qos.ch/shop/products/clm_t.jsp > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
