[35353] tinyca2 Lint Report

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Tue Mar 25 11:40:26 PDT 2008


Landon Fuller wrote:
> 
> On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> Landon Fuller wrote:
>>> On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>>> How long does it take to fix it?  One minute.
>>> It's not broken. It's just like a spell checker that gets annoyed 
>>> when you type "colour" instead of "color".
>>
>> Teams have style guides for everything, such as no space before a ( 
>> for the Subversion source code, everybody plays along with it.
> 
> The original style guidelines only tried to enforce things that mattered.
> 
>> Just go along with it.  I found a bunch of stuff in my port files and 
>> cleaned it up.  I don't have an issue with it.  There's more important 
>> stuff to discuss about.
> 
> So why do we have a machine auto-emailing humans about stuff that 
> doesn't matter that much?

I'm guessing by the few emails I've seen taking issue with the style emails that 
most people don't mind and that that the people that wrote the tool felt that 
style does matter.

I'm in that camp.  I like seeing all the ports having the same style.

Blair



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