[Insight-developers] Re: Review Directory : Coding Style Problems

Julien Jomier julien.jomier at kitware.com
Thu Feb 15 12:56:19 EST 2007


Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:26:40 +0100, Stephen R. Aylward 
> <Stephen.Aylward at Kitware.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Does "consistent line lengths" mean "80 characters" ?
> If "many filters already have lines that are too long", perhaps is there 
> a reason ?
> 
> Again, I can't understand the reaction of the itk core developers to a 
> proposition which is everything but stupid. Roughly, all what I get is 
> "it's like that" (Bill), a huge exageration of what I'm proposing to 
> demonstrate that's a bad idea (Luis), and "we'll force you to go against 
> what you proposed" (Stephen). Again I'm wasting my time trying to 
> communicate with a wall.
> 
> It seem I'm not allowed to propose anything - a strange way to manage a 
> community -, so please go ahead, add all the commit check you want.
> In that conditions, I'm not sure I will care of fixing the line lengths 
> of a file to fix a bug - it may be a bug fix lost.
> 

I'm going to increase the length of the lines to 100 chars so we can 
spend more time fixing more important style issues.

We agreed on the last Tcons that KWStyle will not be used as a cvs 
commit check (at least for now).

Julien



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