Re: GOP2-4 - C++ and scheme indentation

[Ian Hulin]

Hi Jan,

I'm don't mean to be snarky here but please look at the comments below.

Cheers,
Ian Hulin

On 09/08/12 11:21, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Graham Percival writes:
> 
>> ** Motivation
>>
>> New contributors sometimes struggle to follow our indentation and
>> code style
> 
> Yes, that's bad.  Do we explain that we're a GNU project and as
> such use GNU coding style?  Together with a pointer to the info
> node *(standards)Formatting, that could help.
> 
>> – this is especially difficult when parts of our
>> existing source code doesn’t have a consistent style.
> 
> Yes, and even more so if we don't explain what the style is?
> 
> What could help, though, is to just accept small patches that have
> formatting problems, run C-x h C-M-\ , tell them thank you and show
> them the reformatted diff from C-x v = ?
> 
I think you missed/overlooked this in Graham's original post:

"Emacs is not an answer; nobody wants to install 50 megabytes just
to format scheme code. Especially when a standalone tool could do
the job in probably less than 10 Kb."

What you suggest above is written from a point of view within the Emacs
bubble.  Who is the "we" who would do this, given that the project is
already short of developers?

> This is where Rietveld, git-cl, policy and possibly the benevolent
> dictator comes in?
> 
Salve dictator, Republicae salvator (!?!?)
(Hail, dictator saviour of the republic)
> Greetings,
> Jan
>