On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Max Kaehn wrote: > Resending to the cygwin list this time... > > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 19:30, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Wow! That's great! Thanks for doing this. It is much appreciated. This > > is something that I had been meaning to do and you did a better job than > > I would have. This truly deserves a gold star. I know that understanding > > the cygtls stuff could not have been easy. > > > > Can I get a gold star over here for this truly heroic effort? > > *blush* > > > I have checked in everything but the test suite stuff. I would like to > > see some changes there: > > > > 1) Use '.cc' rather than '.cpp' for the extension to be consistent with > > the rest of winsup. > > Oops. All the other things I was trying to get right and that one > was staring me in the face. :-) > > > 2) Use the same formatting that is used throughout cygwin for brace > > placement, etc. > > Sure. I tried looking for the appropriate emacs settings for > the canonical cygwin style, but I can't find out how to get my > password for access to the cygwin-developers archive to see if > anyone has already answered that one. Another couple of good > things for the cygwin-developers FAQ or maybe a README.coding-style > in winsup could be: > * How do I access the cygwin-developers archives through > the Web interface? > * What parameters should I set in my source code editor > so it automatically does the proper indentation for the > canonicaly cygwin style? > > Meanwhile, cygload isn't that large, so I just set c-basic-offset > to 2 and hand-tweaked the braces. I'll be submitting the revised > patch for cygload today.
Doesn't GNU indent have a mode that conforms exactly to the GNU code formatting standards? > > 3) Submit the new files as diffs against /dev/null so that I can apply > > like a normal patch. > > Aha! I'd been wondering how that would look in a patch. That might > be a good one for the "contributing" page. Or use "diff -N", which will automatically do the right thing. > You may have noticed that I'm a compulsive documenter. If you > want to leave the effort of turning a brief E-mail reply into a > FAQ entry or README to me, I'll be happy to submit the patch. :-) See <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CTDW>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
