Re: GNU indent for C code

[Etienne Gagnon]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> - The native/jni/gtk-peer files are a proper part of GNU Classpath, but
> currently mostly hacked on (maintained) on the libgcj gui branch.
> Graydon said that he takes full responsibility for any inconvenience
> this creates, but in this case I think this does make merging for him
> much harder then it should be. The next merge/sync date for this code is
> April 15 if I remember correctly. Maybe it is better to reverse this
> till just after this merge point. Graydon?

This is the greatest pitfall of the CVS single trunk of development approach;
any change to the trunk potentially break all the other developer's code.

It is highly time to move development away from CVS.  What are the problems to
do so *NOW*?  Political ones? e.g. GNU's savannah does not support it, so we
won't do it?

Should "low-level" politics dictate the direction of Classpath?  I don't care
whether it's hosted on savannah or not; the development site should be hosted
in the best way for the project as a whole.

As for the choice of software, e.g. CVS, Arch, Subversion, or other, I hope
again that "low-level" politics won't be the motivation for one over the other,
instead of technical reasons.

Or, am I dreaming?

Etienne

> For the rest of the code the re-indenting according to standard GNU
> coding guidelines is actually an improvement. Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark


--
Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D.             http://www.info.uqam.ca/~egagnon/
SableVM:                                       http://www.sablevm.org/
SableCC:                                       http://www.sablecc.org/