On Nov 10, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hi
>
> Since I've just started getting my feet wet wading around in this
> code and I
> even got my first patch applied and committed by James, I now feel
> brave
> enough to ask this:
>
> How about re-indenting the entire source code?
>
> I find the source code very awkward to work with, very much because
> of the
> overly long source lines. I come from a world where we limit source
> code lines
> to less than 80 columns, and this code has lines going beyond 200
> columns and
> many many being longer than 80.
I figured out that most of the code is based on tab indenting with
tab being 4 characters. I am also not a big fan of 80 character
lines for several reasons.
* Projects like this have long function names and descriptive
variables names, ie not "x". Wrapping at 80 a lot of times makes it
harder to read. Since very few people are actually using 80x25
screens, most of my FreeBSD work is 80x43. A longer line length,
like 132 is a better size.
>
> I know source code indenting is a religious thing and basically
> about feelings
> and what you're used to, but I thought I'd still ask since I do
> feel pain when
> reading code using the current layout. I'm fine with whatever
> indent rules you
> want otherwise, I just can't bare the line lengths.
>
> I am planning on doing further work on libssh2, and I wouldn't mind
> paving the
> road for that. I also wouldn't mind getting CVS commit access, but
> I figure I
> should wait a little and prove myself worthy first.
This is just my opinion and not sent to the mailing list. But I will
continue to commit you changes to keep both projects going.
Jim
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