RE: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-09 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Frank W. Zammetti said: * StrictDuplicateCode Duplicate code is just plain bad... not in terms of something not working, although that is certainly possible in some situations, but it's just a sign of carelessness. If nothing else, I'm sure no one wants the Struts code base to

Re: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-09 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, August 9, 2005 1:04 am, Martin Cooper said: You forgot FindBugs. It really does find bugs. ;-) Your right, I did :) My builds at work do include it actually. Checkstyle is run from Maven, so whether or not we move to Checkstyle 3.5 right now depends on whether or not the Maven

Re: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-09 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
* PackageDeclaration This is almost a silly check frankly, but again, no harm no foul. Yes, this is silly. If Struts committers are checking in classes with no package declaration, then I think we have bigger problems. ;-) Such as it won't work on a JDK 1.4 platform :-) No need to

RE: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-09 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Thanks for the heads-up... I didn't look to see what the complaints were actually flagging... your right, rules like that definitely shouldn't be enabled if that's the kind of thing it is going to catch... and that one doesn't look configurable enough to get rid of those, and I certainly don't

RE: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-09 Thread ivank2005
I would very much like to see this duplicated code feature improved. I think it goes along with good refactoring so if it worked well it would be really helpful. I see way too much duplicated code in the code reviews I have to do. -- The only problem with doing it right the first time is that

Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-08 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Hello all, As per Ted's suggestion, this thread is meant to discuss updating the Struts CheckStyle rules file as brought up in Bugzilla ticket #35956. My motivation for this suggestion is because I wanted to do what I could to help towards the 1.3 release, and most of the true issues seem to

Re: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-08 Thread Craig McClanahan
In general, doing this sort of nagging on the developer list is *exactly* the right thing to do for getting patches you believe in moved forward :-). I'm not directly involved in Struts 1.3 development so I'll leave overall acceptance to others, but a couple of general comments on your

Re: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-08 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Craig McClanahan wrote: Although the general principle is sound, there can be a counter-argument that cut-n-paste can sometimes avoid undesireable cross-package dependencies. Most rules engines I've seen allow you to create an exceptions list where the developers say yes, I know this violates

Re: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-08 Thread Martin Cooper
On 8/8/05, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, As per Ted's suggestion, this thread is meant to discuss updating the Struts CheckStyle rules file as brought up in Bugzilla ticket #35956. My motivation for this suggestion is because I wanted to do what I could to help

Re: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-08 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 8/8/05, Martin Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/05, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, As per Ted's suggestion, this thread is meant to discuss updating the Struts CheckStyle rules file as brought up in Bugzilla ticket #35956. My motivation for this