+1 for formatting & 4 spaces. thanks, Thilina
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Tom Jordahl <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for 4 space formatting. Consistent and strict code (and XML) formatting > is a very good thing for shared projects. Considering we have tools (IDEA) > that make the work trivial, the time invested is worth the gain in > readability. > > > Tom Jordahl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Glen Daniels [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VOTE] XML formatting > > +1 Benson, that's exactly the reason for my vote. > > I don't actually love reformatting as I'm making changes because to be > polite, one should really reformat, commit, and /then/ make your real > changes so that those reading the commit diffs can actually see what you > did. So the proposal is just to do a blanket reformat of the POMs now > so they're all clean and easy to edit. We don't have to force this on > every project, but I'd like to do at least Axis2, Axiom, Neethi, > XmlSchema, Transports, Rampart, and Sandesha. > > Thanks, > --Glen > > Benson Margulies wrote: > > 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<http://www.research.att.com/%7Ebs/bs_faq.html#really-say-that> > >> My guess: Nokia E50) > >> > -- Thilina Gunarathne - http://thilinag.blogspot.com
