--- Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
I think automatic reformatting is the only way - unless a project wants too repell developers.
The main branch of Pd must be repelling people in another way, because not that many changes are made by non-Millers, and they all have like 5 years of experience using Pd.
And even then, if any aspect of the code repels people, it's not necessarily negative. If five aspects of *my* code repel people, but mostly the same people in each case, and I assess that there's at least one aspect that I won't change no matter what, then there is not much incentive to "fix" any of those other four, especially if there are various downsides to adapting to those programmers.
Then I would also have to assess how much those programmers can contribute anything worthwhile if they have several principles that reduce their own productivity (e.g. "macros are evil") and that also reduce mine.
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Probably I didn't express myself clearly enough.
I meant the following:
1) if no formatting is enforced on a project, nobody is repelled, since everybody has the possibility/freedom to write code the way he/she likes;
2) if formatting is considered necessary, it'd better be done automatically in order not to repell contributors who prefer a different formatting style.
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And, by the way, I have nothing against macros.
Regards, Sergei.
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