From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 2 01:55:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA10694 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 01:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA10686 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 01:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0uQ8wG-000QdSC; Sun, 2 Jun 96 10:55 MET DST From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA15734; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:34:14 +0200 Message-Id: <199606020834.KAA15734@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Indentation styles To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:34:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) In-Reply-To: <5435.833388991@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 29, 96 09:56:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > >> If companies have coding style standards, why shouldn't a free OS project >> have the same? NetBSD, from time to time, makes KNF'ing runs through the > > Because we already have 200% more work to do than our volunteers can > deal with and having endless discussions and/or wars about someone > reformatting someone else's code is NOT the most productive use of > everyone's time. :-) That depends on how easy and reliable it is. I'd guess that reformatting the entire kernel sources with indent would take less than a minute. I've tried on selected files, and the result is not identical, but it's at least as legible, and it's more in conformance with KNF. Greg