Hi Folks, As discussed previously on the developer list:
Code style auto-formatting http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/14969 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/14969/focus=15001 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/14969/focus=16307 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/14969/focus=16358 we've decided to change the C++ coding style within CMake to use a more modern style that can be automatically formatted. We chose a style defined by clang-format: --- # This configuration requires clang-format 3.8 or higher. BasedOnStyle: Mozilla AlignOperands: false AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: None ColumnLimit: 79 Standard: Cpp03 ... A simple example of the layout is: bool foo(int a, int b) { if (a < b) { return true; } else { return false; } } This style is much more common than our old Whitesmiths-like style and will be easier to maintain in many editors. Also the clang-format tool can be used to maintain the format. The transition will be implemented as a one-shot automated style conversion recorded as a commit by "Kitware Robot". The use of this author will call out the transition in `git blame` output that reaches it. I plan to perform the final conversion sometime before the 3.6 release freeze so that fixes for the release do not have to be backported to the old style. For those of you with open topics it should be possible to rebase them across the style transition automatically. I will include an empty commit preceding the transition to aid with this. Its commit message will explain what to do. I can help with the process for anyone that has trouble. For reference, I've temporarily published an example topic performing the transition here: https://github.com/bradking/CMake/tree/clang-format-test -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
