Yes there are style files for Eclipse. But I'm pretty opposed to changing the default style of Eclipse. The default style of Eclipse is pretty darn close to the Sun java coding standard put out in 99 that most java projects seems to follow. Maybe Apache has their own subculture, but in general I've seen most java projects follow that standard in some loose fashion. Requiring people to change the default style just seems to end up with having to police the code style more. And unless you start a project from fresh with a tool like checkstyle, it doesn't help.
Is it possible to move back to tabs? Can we have a vote or something? My immediate problem is that all of the my patches I have in my queue to submit just got invalidated because they just all look like conflicts now. Darren > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: maven: why move tabs -> ws? > From: Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> > Date: Sun, August 26, 2012 11:59 pm > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > > > 2012/8/27 Darren Shepherd <dar...@godaddy.com>: > > Olivier, > > > > Why is there a strong preference of white space over tabs for the > > pom.xml's? I noticed you changed all of them. The thing is, when I > > created all the pom files I actually created them with 2 spaces instead > > of tabs (that's my vim settings). When I start using the pom's in > > Eclipse it donned on me that the Eclipse default is to use tabs over > > spaces and thus when you go to edit the pom's in Eclipse you end up with > > poorly formatted garbage. So I actually went through and reformatted > > everything with tabs. > > > > Is there a strong standard to use spaces instead of tabs? I kinda > > thought the java world (and xml world) seemed to prefer tabs in general. > Perso all opensource projects I'm involved @apache and others use *only* > spaces. > So maybe I'm maniac :-) > > A more general question I have: is there any style files for ide ? (at > least eclipse and idea). > > > > > Darren > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Olivier Lamy > Talend: http://coders.talend.com > http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
