Hi,

We discussed recently about using the eclipse tool to clean up the code to
decrease our number of checkstyle errors/warnings.

Gilles now you have committed your changes, could we agree on a day where we
could make sure we have no pending changes so that one of us can run the
tool and commit the cleaned up code without needing a merge?

Before we should apply the patch from Stephane:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-518

On my side I have no pending changes, so any day is ok. I'm ok to apply the
patch and run the clean up tool, I will have time to do it next week. If
anybody else prefer to do it, I'd be happy to oblige :-)

We also have to agree on maximum line length, is 100 (the current setting of
checkstyle, borrowed from Ant) ok for everybody?

Xavier

On 5/24/07, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 5/24/07, Gilles Scokart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes, I have pending changes about the buildlist.  I'm waiting my
> userID to commit them.
>
> Do you think eclipse formater will really reduce the number of errors
> reported by CheckStyle?  If yes, it might be a good idea, but I'm not
> sure it will.


Eclipse can fix a lot of code style errors, like import rules,
indentation, spaces, line length and so on. So I think it would reduce the
number of errors significantly and easily.

I just have one remarks with the eclipse formating using Sun standard
> : the default width of 80 characters is too small.  A bigger value
> should be used (120 maybe?).


I agree 80 is too small. The checkstyle rules Maarten has added set it to
100, I think it's the same as for ant (I think the rules we use for the
moment are the same as for ant). Personally I use a wide screen, so long
lines are not a big issue for me, but I understand they make lines less
readable and more difficult to debug. So maybe 100 is a good compromise.

Opinions?

Xavier

Gilles
>
>
> 2007/5/24, Xavier Hanin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I don't see the patch either.
> >
> > I've created a JIRA issue for this kind of patch:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-515
> >
> > This will avoid to create one issue for each patch, which doesn't
> really
> > make sense.
> >
> > BTW, for the coding style problems, maybe we could use a tool to make
> things
> > cleaner. Eclipse has a pretty good tool to clean code and make it
> closer to
> > coding conventions. Running it is pretty simple, and since we agreed
> on the
> > standard coding convention, we don't even to configure it. The main
> problem
> > is to synchronize among developers to know who and when this will be
> done,
> > because it may result in a lot of conflict for subsequent merges. This
> also
> > mean that patch currently in JIRA will be more difficult to apply. But
> this
> > is the only way I see to reduce significantly the number of checkstyle
>
> > errors (this won't fix the _ prefix, but it will fix a lot of more
> trivial
> > errors).
> >
> > So, what do you think? Should we use this tool? If so, when? Do you
> have
> > pending changes in your code base?
> >
> > Xavier
> >
> > On 5/24/07, Gilles Scokart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry, I didn't see your patch.  Was it suposed to be attached to
> the
> > > mail?
> > >
> > > You could maybe add a Jira issue for it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Gilles
> > >
> > > 2007/5/24, Kevin Jackson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Here are some javadoc and style changes to make Ivy conform
> (slightly)
> > > > more with the Apache style - hopefully kill off some checkstyle
> > > > warnings :)
> > > >
> > > > Kev
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gilles SCOKART
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant
> > Manage your dependencies with Ivy!
> > http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/
> >
>
>
> --
> Gilles SCOKART
>



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Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant
Manage your dependencies with Ivy!
http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/




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Manage your dependencies with Ivy!
http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/

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