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

[Dale Henrichs]

On 11/02/2010 12:19 PM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 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.

I suppose if individuals were able to configure their formatter to their 
liking and then started using this technique ... the result would be 
that their format would be saved into the code base, possibly forcing 
other users to configure their formatter to their liking and eventually 
everyone who cares about the format of the code will be happy and those 
that aren't happy with the format will configure their formatter ...

I've only thought this for the last 25 years, so it might take a while 
to catch on:)

Dale