[Seaside-dev] Re: [Seaside Commits] Seaside 3.0 LGPL: Seaside-FileSystem-pmm.25.mcz

[Philippe Marschall]

2010/11/2 Dale Henrichs <dhenrich at vmware.com>:
> On 11/01/2010 11:00 PM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>>
>> 2010/11/2 Julian Fitzell<jfitzell at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> please....?
>>
>> I hate RB, I really do. I don't understand how people can use it. It
>> makes my code look really ugly. If I didn't care how my code looked, I
>> used brainfuck. I don't understand how people are allowed to walk
>> around and lie "we have the best tools". Honestly search and replace
>> would be better than RB, because it doesn't reformat the code. Maybe
>> we need a C library that we can call out to that solves this hard
>> problem for us.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Philippe
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>
> Philippe,
>
> I mentioned this idea to a few folks at ESUG (and Lukas even wrote the code)
> ...
>
> Since it is impossible to satisfy everyone with a standard format, my idea
> is that the code browsing tools should reformat everything using a
> formatter/style that is chosen by the user ... all code should be stored
> without regard to format and all code comparison tools should format, then
> compare ...

We had a pretty consistent formatting across the whole Seaside code
base until we let tools wreck it.

> It does assume that each individual can teach a formatter to format the code
> to their liking...
>
> The end result is that when each user reads and edits code, it is
> automatically formatted to their liking ...

I believe it when I see it.

Cheers
Philippe