Re: [tcljava-dev] Google Summer of Code 2010

[Mo D. <mo...@mo...>]

Tom Poindexter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 01:59:36PM -0700, Mo DeJong wrote:
>   
>> The rest of the changes could not really be integrated because of 
>> formatting issues that basically made
>> the changes impossible to merge.
>>     
>
> Really??  Formatting??  The time is long past to give up the
> format style in Jacl in favor of something more commonly accepted,
> such as http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html
> Any IDE can do this with a few keystrokes

It is true that any IDE can reformat source code. What is not true is 
that automatic reformatting is a useful feature all of the time. In this 
particular case, that is exactly what happened. The IDE that Radoslaw 
was using reformatted the heck out of the code, to the point where it 
could not longer be compared to previous versions to figure out what if 
anything actually changed from one file to the next.

As for reformatting the source code of Jacl/Tcl Blend, would that really 
provide any real benefit? It seems like whatever limited time folks have 
to donate is better spent working on fixing a bug or implementing a 
feature instead of reformatting comments to fit a style guide.

just my 2 cents
Mo