Hmm.. whenever someone brings up "an issue of common standards, professionalism, code quality, and cooperation", I get suspitious.. what might he 'really' be trying to do? *cough*.. anyway.
Wasn't there some kind of coding standards document on the wiki? ohai! , it's here: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Coding_standards Might want to move the s vs z debate to the discussion page? -Teravus On 1/25/09, Ryan McDougall <sempu...@gmail.com> wrote: > My apologies for thread-jacking... > > I just want to be clear I didn't propose it because I came later and > decided I didn't like UK spelling. I am Canadian and historically > Canadians have used UK spelling. > > I proposed it for the same reason (US) English is the standard > language of all things international; business, science, open source, > etc: we have to pick one anyway, there will be more people unhappy > with the choice than happy, so might as well just pick the most common > one and suck it up. > > That said, I don't actually care a lot UK v. US. However, I *do* think > there should be coding standards and I *do* think they should be > enforced, regardless of what any individual person likes. That means > naming conventions, indentation, and spelling. Its an issue of common > standards, professionalism, code quality, and cooperation. > > Cheers, > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, MW <michaelwr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Yeah I wasn't really being serious that we should try to get as many > > spelling systems or langauges as we can. > > > > So I do agree that it would be best to have one, but its hard to force > > people to use one system if that is different to what they are used to. Its > > just natural to spell as you normally do. > > > > But if we are going with one then my vote has to be for UK spelling, as I > > said thats how the project started and to be honest I think it would be > > wrong to swap it later because as more people joined they decided they > > didn't like the spelling system. We really did have it in the code standards > > at one time that we used UK spelling. > > > > And also we have about as many core developers from the UK as anywhere else. > > > > But saying all that in the grand scheme of things this isn't really a big > > deal. > > > > Sean Dague <sda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > bMW wrote: > >> But it is in our code standards somewhere that we use UK spelling in > >> opensim code. ;) Or it used to be in there. > >> > >> But no I don't think really we can force people to use a different system > >> of spelling to what they are used to. As I feel as strong about not liking > >> the US spelling as you do about UK ones. > >> > >> But I would be extremely sad if all the current code was swapped to US > >> spelling. This was started as a UK project as it was just myself working on > >> it at the start. > >> > >> But its now a international project, let lets try and get as many spelling > >> systems as possible in there, lets even try for different languages ;) > > > > Honestly, we should pick one and run with it, and I don't really care > > which one. The lack of standardization here causes plenty of confusion > > for those of us not in auto-completing environments about which version > > to use. :) > > > > -Sean > > > > -- > > Sean Dague / Neas Bade > > sda...@gmail.com > > http://dague.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensim-dev mailing list > > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensim-dev mailing list > > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
