Dave Hall wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been playing with PHP CodeSniffer recently ( see > http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer/ ). It is a nice tool for > checking compliance with coding standards. > > Today we have been discussing using it as part of the ReSight project. > This led me to take a quick look over the phpGW coding standard ( see > http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/phpgroupware/trunk/phpgwapi/doc/coding_standard.txt > ). I noticed that we haven't define target and maximum line lengths. I know > this can turn into a religious debate, but I am hoping it doesn't :) > > I think we have 3 options: > > * Agree to not have a standard > > * Make it maximum 80 characters - cos a console is only characters wide, > but this ignores the fact that one shouldn't be hacking on code on a > console a production box :) > > * Make it something reasonable for today's technology and match our > existing development approach. I favour this option, with 100 as the > target and 120 as the maximum. My laptop is 1920x1200 so I can handle a > lot more, but it starts to get hard to read at that point. > > Please throw your 2 characters in :) > > In the coming week or 2, Sigurd will be working on implementing the > standard for phpGW in PHP CodeSniffer. Once it is done, we will be > putting it back into the tree (probably under > phpgwapi/test/code_sniffer). Then anyone can run the test over their > code - preferably before checking their code in :) (hint hint) >
I would prefer to not have a standard for line lengths - as I believe it would lead to a need for massive reformatting. Regards Sigurd _______________________________________________ phpGroupWare-developers mailing list phpGroupWare-developers@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/phpgroupware-developers
