[Biojava-dev] Biojava3-Core

[Andy Yates]

I can say that the Eclipse diff tool does care about whitespace and I'm quite sure that the Unix diff cares about it as well. I can't say anything about Netbeans since I haven't used it in years.

With all the best respect if the formatting rules say 4 spaces per indentation & code comes in not behaving in that manner then it'll be reformatted. This is nothing against the person who does the commits just they should be aware that it _could_ happen. I should say my personal preference is 2 spaces per indentation; I am flexible about this & will go with what the majority agree. That said if I'm being flexible about it I hope others will be as well.

Andy

On 12 May 2010, at 12:41, LAW Andrew wrote:

> I think the main thing should be for each of us to find a diff tool that doesn't care about whitespace. The other stuff (camelCase, use of braces [ALWAYS!!!], splitting lines) are more important and can/should be defined but if you tell me that we must use 2 spaces to indent and my editor of choice uses a tab then I'm probably not going to listen to you in all practical situations.
> 
> Not being awkward, just pragmatic.
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> 
> On 12 May 2010, at 12:26, Andy Yates wrote:
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>> So long as they are documented then developers shouldn't complain when their formatting changes. I just want to avoid a situation like now with Scooter's check-in which has a lot of formatting changes so the code changes are quite hard to pick out.
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>> I've gone and started a page about conventions and have started a discussion. Once we are agreed on what should go into the conventions then they will migrate to the wiki page.
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> On 12 May 2010, at 12:09, LAW Andrew wrote:
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>>> 
>>> On 12 May 2010, at 11:52, Richard Holland wrote:
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>>>> I see a need for a formal coding style here, regardless of what platform people are using. Taking Netbeans as a basis is a good start but it needs to be documented for contributors to read and follow, then enforced across the whole project.
>>> 
>>> Absolutely. But the pain in making <insert favourite tool name here> use those conventions can be numbing.
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>>> 
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>>> Later,
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