On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:24:17AM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote:
> > 4) Sharing a build-system will be impossible/painful. Same for a coding
> > standard.
>
> I agree completely. There should be little to no standards in terms
> of build-systems. Those kinds of decisions are best left up to the
> implementors. As a Commons PMC member, I am totally against me having
> any say in the build system of any Commons project. :)
Oops, I forgot to address the coding standard issue. I believe that the
ASF has had a loose coding standard for a very long time. It generally
comes down to this: no tabs, spaces between () and { }, gratuitous
newlines, stuff like that. The link is here (it mostly applies to C,
but I can see how it would apply directly to Java/C++/C#/etc..):
http://httpd.apache.org/dev/styleguide.html
Personally I think a consistent style is important. I'd rather see
us all come up with a style that we can agree with rather than
everyone using their own. (Keep in mind that the C style is set
in stone though, and not by me. :)
-aaron
