[Impact-development] File encoding and coding style

[Bernhard H. <ha...@ha...>]

Hi,

what do you think of automatic source code formatting? This would also
solve the file encoding problems. I found a very neat tool at
SourceForge called "Jalopy", which applies coding conventions to
existing Java source code in a highly configurable way.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/jalopy/

Of course, this can only be done in a hands-off/hands-on manner, because
it touches nearly all files in the repository and produces hardly
mergeable changes.

How files would look like after reformatting (with my personal favorite
coding style file :-)) can you see by looking at my local Impact working
copy, which I temporarily exported to the web at:

    http://www.ipd.uka.de/~hauma/Impact/

If we could agree about a time window in which such modification could
be done, I also offer to apply these changes (to the head and parallel
branch).


Best regards,    Bernhard Haumacher.