I respectfully disagree. A messy file makes it much harder to make correct edits. Without or without a vote, when I pull an XML file into an editor and it is inconsistently indented, I take the 30 seconds it takes to reformat it before I do anything else. Since Glen has to edit all these POMs anyway, it seems reasonable to me for him to neaten them up.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jochen Wiedmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Glen Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Some of our POMs are a real mess, though.... do you care if they get >> reformatted to look nicer? > > If lack of formatting is what makes them a mess, then I disagree that > they are. Otherwise, I think that there is more important work to do. > > Jochen > > > -- > I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my > telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out > how to use my telephone. > > -- (Bjarne Stroustrup, > http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#really-say-that > My guess: Nokia E50) >
