[Kde-pim] Re: Renaming "CodingStyle/Korganizer" wiki page. ( Was: Kdepim coding style: indentation )

[David Jarvie]

On Thu, March 10, 2011 9:11 am, Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> On Thursday 10 March 2011 01:17:44 David Jarvie wrote:
>> However, I don't think it's desirable to enforce 2-space indentation for
>> all other modules or sub-modules, even new ones, when the majority of
>> people seem to prefer 4 spaces. I would advocate allowing kdelibs style
>> for new modules as an alternative.
>
> Not that my application is part of kdepim, but if it ever would be I could
> already tell you now that enforcing the kdepim condingstyle would make me
> think twice before including it. So IMHO it would be an unncessary barrier
> for new apps.
>
> It's clear that a codingstyle is needed on a per application/library
> basis, but I don't see why it has to be for the whole module.
>
> I'm myself also more comfortable with the kdelibs style, but I'm not even
> sure if "any" codyingstyle should be enforced for the whole kdepim module.
>
> Such things should be left up to the devs of those apps, it should be
> "fun" to write your code after all .

What you say makes good sense. It should be up to the maintainers of each
individual app or library to decide what coding style to use.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author - http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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