[35353] tinyca2 Lint Report

[Landon Fuller]

On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:

> 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.

OK. If that's the prevailing opinion I'll just /dev/null the lint  
warnings, hopefully not miss anything truly important, and get on with  
work.

-landonf