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I do not care to much about coding style but if coding standard will be an extra burden for developers development effort will go down.

I had to quit my job a few months ago then focus shifted from development to document handling, mainly howto number documents.



On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:54:53 +0000
"M. J. Everitt (m DOT j DOT everitt AT iee DOT org) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> I think you should propose a change (of reformatting code) .. and let it
> 'sink' in .. and generate discussion .. and then set an appropriate
> release/milestone to achieve by. Coders can therefore share the burden
> amongst them, to achieve the goal, and Voila, you have code conforming
> to a 'standard' you're agreed on :)
> 
> Michael.
> 
> On 07/01/16 04:56, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via
> > geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> >
> >> Indeed - we can document requirements, but auto-reformating large
> >> chunks of
> >> the code will cause un-necessary pain for people (like myself), who have
> >> outstanding patches that eventually want to be finished up and
> >> committed to
> >> HEAD.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >
> > Btw, if the project does decide to auto-reformat, please advertise
> > this on the list, there may be forks out there.
> >
> > I have the opposite of your problem: I'd like to reformat pcb-rnd, but
> > so far resisted the temptation to make my patches easier to apply to
> > mainline or other forks. Once the mainline makes that move, I won't
> > have a reason not to do it, this why I'd like to know about it by the
> > time it happens.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Igor2