Re: [Zope3-dev] Should major for-reaching changes be made for purposes of style?

2005-09-01 Thread Dominik Huber
Jim Fulton wrote: A change in style, if applied everywhere can lead to massive code changes. This can have serious downsides. If people are working on branches, where most new work should be done, then merging is made more difficult. People who read the checkins have a lot of extra code to

Re: [Zope3-dev] Should major for-reaching changes be made for purposes of style?

2005-09-01 Thread Stephan Richter
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 17:05, Jim Fulton wrote: I'm interested in hearing what people think about this in general. Should we make far reaching code changes to enforce a consistent style?  Or should we update style when making other changes? I tend to do the later. I think this depends on