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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:31, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:17:20 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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> | On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> | > Yes, it's an utterly trivial problem, but it is a QA violation. |
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> | > Getting a complete list is something that takes a heck of a lot |
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> | > longer, and I have yet to be convinced that my time would not be |
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> | > better spent elsewhere. |
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> | Where is a coding style problem related to quality of code in general |
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> | and assurance in particular? |
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> It's more relevant than you might think. Screwing up layout like that |
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> breaks various QA checking tools that assume that things are in the |
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> standard format. |
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Then fix the damn tools. I've had runins with broken tools earlier. If you |
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want the ebuild format to be stricter, well, make portage complain. |
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Otherwise, fix up your parser. |
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> Proper coding style is part of being proper. |
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Coding style issues exist in degrees. White space issues such as these are of |
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very low priority. Broken QA tools should not be an excuse to give them |
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higher priority. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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