kdelibs coding style

Maks Orlovich mo85 at cornell.edu
Sat Jul 22 16:33:28 BST 2006


> Let me make this clear: we won't revert any changes done to existing code
> that won't reindent "correctly". But we want to have a style guide for
> kdelibs that people can lean to. "respect the author's style" is a pretty
> bad rule as we have files that were touched (and indented) by several
> authors and we have files that stick to the style of Torben's early years
> and the style to Waldo's late years and those that happened to be edited
> with vim's default style and those that happened to be edited with
> kde-emacs's default style.

This sounds quite a bit more reasonable, but still --- there are places where 
"respect the author's style" works, and the application of the suggested 
style may only introduce gross inconsistency, on top of intefering with 
primary and active author's preferences.


-Maks




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