Thanks Chris. We should probably move the Java and javascript style guides
into SVN as well (they're currently on cwiki.apache.org).

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> With our first shindig release just around the corner (branching has
> already
> happened), it was a now-or-never kind of moment to adjust the php code
> formatting style; And it turns out it's 'now' and not 'never' :)
>
> The code format of php shindig and partuza has long been different from the
> java implementation, and this commit corrects that.
>
> In the end the fact that the majority of the contributors & contributions
> (Google, Plaxo, Globant) use & are used to this style of formatting was
> enough of a reason to take this leap and adjust the project(s), even though
> this will undoubtedly cause a fair amount of commit spam and goble up a
> fair
> bit of bandwidth in the short term, but it beats trying to force our major
> contributers to live with a different code style then their used too.
>
> Now a commit is nothing without documentation on what this new formatting
> is, so i've included a style guide:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shindig/trunk/php/style-guide.html
>
> and a Zend Studio formatting that you can import into it (if your not using
> Zend Studio for Eclipse, you consider using it):
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shindig/trunk/php/style-conventions.xml
>
> ps: The main changes are that 2 spaces are used for identation instead of a
> tab (which causes the huge --everything, ++everything part of the patch),
> and the function { is now on the same line instead of the next one, for the
> rest the code style is identical to what it was before.
>
> Again my appologies for the commit spam and confusion, but the good news is
> that this will never have to happen again :)
>
>   -- Chris
>

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