Mateusz just created https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc69_cplusplus_formatting and I'll be cloning his https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/RFC4 with changes for GDAL.
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I've observed Kurt's continued efforts, over several months if not years, > to set a consistant style to the code base and this is a much appreciated > initiative. Now, as this touches the whole code base, I think this should > be formalized, probably under the form of a RFC, so that this is shared > among all developers. Currently as there's no automation, basically every > committer will probably unconsciously "break" files that have been already > reformatted, which is a waste of time that could be avoided (and on a minor > note we could save extra reformatting commits that are noise in the > history, and extra bits to parse for the human preparing a changelog) > > > > I've seen in other projects, like QGIS, a script (in QGIS, they rely on > astyle ultimately. not saying we should necessary use astyle) that takes > care of reformatting automatically the files to be committed given the > rules. That way the effort is spread on all contributors (and it is not a > big deal to run this script). We could also have in Travis-CI a check so > that pull requests are verified to respect the style (currently, we have > already a very adhoc scripts/detect_tabulations.sh to check that no > tabulation characters are used) > > > > Even > > > > -- > > Spatialys - Geospatial professional services > > http://www.spatialys.com > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- -- http://schwehr.org
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