[cmake-developers] Code style auto-formatting

Alan W. Irwin irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
Wed Nov 18 18:47:12 EST 2015


On 2015-11-17 16:44-0600 Robert Dailey wrote:

>[...]Honestly all of this is a matter of taste, I don't expect
> everyone to agree on every little detail. I think the goal should be
> to strive for something a little more modern (determined by general
> consensus in the open source community) and most importantly enforce
> it. No matter what style you choose, consistency is what matters the
> most.

Well said.  We used similar principles in the PLplot case and the
resulting code style consistency (implemented with uncrustify in that
case) within that project has been quite beneficial.

Alan
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