On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 10:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Many moons ago, > > we had a request to move the checkstyle properties off into a separate > file so that a project could supply it's own 'style-guide' in effect, as a > standard checkstyle properties file. > > This would also solve some problems for us: > - Some projects don't have a license file, and since we currently must > always provide a value for the header file properties, we can't use the > default way, of not specifying the property, to let users skip the license > file requirement. This has caused many questions and caused many wasted > hours for our users. > - Keeping up to date with the checkstyle releases means defining a whole > raft of new maven properties and documenting them. Separating out the > properties into a standard checkstyle properties file absolves us of this > pain. > - We can provide the turbine standards and sun code conventions as sample > files, defaulting to the Sun ones as that seems to be more popular. > - Our specified properties can now be a subset of the properties required > by checkstyle as we can allow the defaults to go unspecified. > > This behaviour will possibly break existing users, as the properties in > the checkstyle properties file have no maven prefix, and any overrides > will in effect no longer work. > > That said, I think it's worth doing, and have done so locally. I'd like to > commit it, and I'm calling a vote for the change. > > Here's my +1
+10 > -- > dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting > Work: http://www.multitask.com.au > Developers: http://adslgateway.multitask.com.au/developers > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
