With tabs it's harder to enforce an (apparent) 80 character line limit.
+1 to using spaces.
On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Utkarsh Srivastava wrote:
What's wrong with tabs? I hate spaces. With tabs there is less
probability of having messed up indentation.
Utkarsh
On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Definitely no mixing tabs and spaces. We should not use tabs!
ben
On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Nigel Daley wrote:
+1 to Alan's comments on NOT mixing tabs and spaces. FWIW, we can
enforce this with the Checkstyle tool once the current code base is
fixed to follow the convention.
Nige
On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Alan Gates wrote:
I'm mostly fine with the sun conventions. You suggested staying
with an indentation of 4. The sun conventions say tabs must always
be set at 8. I strongly dislike mixing tabs and spaces, as it
tends to make a mess out of code. I don't care if we agree to do
our indents as one tab (and then let people set their tabs as they
see fit) or to only uses spaces. But I'd like to not mix the two.
Alan.
Benjamin Reed wrote:
My vote would be Sun's conventions. Hadoop uses Sun's conventions
except for two spaces per level. It would be much better IMO to
stick to straight Sun conventions.
ben
On Monday 05 November 2007 12:21:31 Olga Natkovich wrote:
Hi Antonio,
My understanding is that each project develops its own style and
that's
part of the incubation process. One general rule that I think we
should
be using is that if you making changes in an existent file you
adhere to
the style of that file to preserve readability of the code. I was
thinking that we should be looking at the rules that hadoop is
using as
the starting point to decide what works for us and what requires
changes:
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/
Look at the Developer Documentation section.
Olga
-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio Magnaghi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 12:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: question on coding style and testing
Hi All,
I have a couple of related questions about coding style/
guidelines and
unit tests.
I have researched the few pages on the Apache website and was not
able
to find what I am looking for.
I am curious about policies that may be in place, as I am new to
Apache.
I am wondering if there are policies in terms of coding styles
like
naming conventions for variables, unit tests requirements,
possible code
coverage requirements (or other types of validation on check-ins
other
than peer-review).
Are there general guidelines? Or maybe each single project has
some
degree of freedom in setting up its own?
Thanks,
-a.
