Charles,
Any chance of letting me know if anything important is said re: this on the Avalon
group. There's no reason why I need to be the one who progresses this with Chris, but
I'm happy to in so far as I can.
Stuart.
On Wednesday, January 17, 2001, at 10:51 AM, Charles Benett wrote:
> Stuart,
> I think this could be a good idea.
> I'm copying this to the Avalon list as I think something similar was
> mentioned there, but it was never resolved.
>
> Stuart Roebuck wrote:
> >
> > Following this post I've been doing some investigating.
> >
> > The code editing package jEdit <http://jedit.sourceforge.net/> uses an optional
> JavaStyle plugin which automatically enforces most coding standards and can be
> configured to various preferences. (By enforces, I mean that it automatically
> reformats code to meet a standard, and can automatically do so on a whole directory
>of
> source code.) The engine behind this is a PrettyPrinter by Chris Seguin which is
>part of a
> collection of Java source code refactoring tools (JRefactory)
> <http://users.snip.net/~aseguin/cspretty.html>. This code is currently GPLd.
> >
> > I have had a brief correspondence with Chris to see what his reaction would be to
>the idea
> of incorporating his code into Ant (and therefore expanding the license - if my
> understanding of licenses is correct). His response has been quite open so far.
> >
>
> If Chris is the sole author, can't he release it under both APL and GPL,
> which would, I think solve this problem.
Yes, that was my understanding too, and I got the impression he was open to this idea.
> > My thought is, if we could add this tool to Ant we could provide an automated
>mechanism for
> conforming any Apache project to a particular coding standard (including dealing
>with
> those nasties like tabs vs. spaces). The PrettyPrinter code also includes
>facilities
> for producing default Javadoc comments for uncommented code matching particular
> criteria (e.g. only public methods..). This kind of automated conformance seems
>such a
> nice idea for open source development.
> >
> > What would your reaction be to this idea? Is it worth pursuing or have I missed
>some
> practical limitation?
> >
> > Stuart.
> >
> Automating this sounds like a great idea.
>
> Charles
>
>
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