On Mar 13, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Benedikt Ritter wrote:

> Am 13. März 2012 14:15 schrieb Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Torsten Curdt <tcu...@vafer.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I find checkstyle to be not very useful. It's more hassle than it's
>>> worth. It's like pointing fingers instead of helping. If you want to
>>> foster a certain code style provide eclipse and intellij formatter
>>> settings instead - that's actually helping. Especially if you run them
>>> before a release.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'd /love/ to have IDE settings for formatting saved in a project. This is
>> the 21st century, all IDEs support this, if you do not use an IDE (hi
>> Gilles), then, well, you probably also like driving a stick for "control"
>> :) The only tricky part is how organize such a folder to account for
>> different IDEs and versions. For example ide/eclipse/3.7.1,
>> ide/intellij/10.5.3, and so on. Then you can move the IDE files to where
>> each IDE wants it.
>> 
> 
> Very big +1 Gary! It would make contributing to the various components
> so much easier (at least for people how use an IDE ;). I guess we
> should discuss this on a new thread.

Although I would also like to have the checkstyle configuration for IntelliJ as 
part of the project, I also like having the checkstyle report to get the 
overview of the whole project.

Ralph
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