I think it would be great if we could have a code formatter for OAE, at least for our most commonly used IDEs (Aptana and TextMate). I'll make this one of the tickets for the code formatting work that is about to happen.
Kind regards, Nicolaas On 11 Jul 2012, at 11:53, Darakananda, Apisak wrote: > Nicolaas, > On the note of coding style, is there any effort in the community > to create some kind of automatic source code formatter? I am > currently playing around with an "experimental" language Go > (http://golang.org > ). The standard tool set contains a program called "gofmt" that > parses the source files and re-write them in the "canonical way". > I'm not sure how much work it is though, and it might turn out to be > an overkill. > > Any thoughts? > Michael > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nicolaas Matthijs" <[email protected]> > To: "OAE Production" <[email protected]>, "oae- > dev [email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:25:47 PM > Subject: [oae-dev] Code styling issues > > Hi everyone, > > At last week's UI dev call, we discussed doing a full sweep over the > entire codebase, cleaning up all places that do not adhere to our > style guide (spacing issues, double quotes instead of single quotes, > CSS not expanded, etc.). > > In the last weeks, various pull requests have been re-opened and > slowed down because of the styling issues they had, and therefore we'd > like to do one focussed pass and then continue with a commit hook and > unit tests that checks for violations of the style guide. > > However, before we go ahead, I wanted to check whether the > institutions running Sakai OAE in production are fine with this, as > there will be an increased likelihood of merge conflicts in areas > where custom code is present. The potential merge conflicts should be > fairly easy to resolve, but we still wanted to check first. > > Any objections? > > Thanks, > Nicolaas > > > -- > Apisak "Michael" Darakananda > [email protected] > "The bus station is where the bus stops. The train station is where > the train stops. On my desk, I have a workstation." _______________________________________________ oae-dev mailing list [email protected] http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev
