Source Code Formatting in kdev4

[Matt Rogers]

On Friday 04 May 2007 06:04, Megan Webb wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>

Hi Megan! 

> I know I've been a bit silent (and absent from irc) lately, but now am
> back:)
>

Welcome back!

> For source code formatting in  Kdev 4, I've started a wiki page at:
> http://kdevelop.org/mediawiki/index.php/Source_Code_Formatter
> with some ideas I've had. Feel free to update, or comment here on
> what is listed.
>
> Really open to any ideas and suggestions you have at the moment for
> formatting.
>
> I can say that I'm keen to have uncrustify as well as astyle support. My
> thought is
> that if we (I) drop using the library interface of the formatter, and
> use either that
> the formatter supports command line switches, or a configuration file of
> options,
> then we can then more easily support having other code formatters.
>
> The alternative is to continue to support astyle as is, and add options
> for uncrustify
> and others.
>

Perhaps the best way to go is to create an interface for the source code 
formatters that can be used so that we don't have to worry about how to call 
the code from the rest of kdevelop. 

> My reasoning for this is to (hopefully) be able to offer some support
> for code formatters for
> languages other than C/C++ and Java.
>

Yes indeed, code formatters for other languages would be nice to have.
-- 
Matt