Re: Sv: Misc. convention stuff

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote:

>>Another thing: One of your arguments for a very consistent style was that
>>inconsistency would put off potential new developers because they find it
>>harder to read the code.
>>But imagine they actually decide to contribute some code and we say -
>>thanks, that's great - but your code has to follow exactly this style.
>>Free software developers are volunteers, and about 80% of them would leave
>>if presented with that choice.

>An idea that I think would perhaps appeal more to you would be to not have
>any indentation rules, and then run all released code through this
>indentation utility before it was released.

Then someone gets the released version, finds a bug and tells us "hey, you
should really correct XY at line Z in ppf_DirTree.cc" - and it will take us
some time to actually match this line number to our "real" code.


	Christian
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