Hi, I'd like to run some metrics (JDepend, CheckStyle) on the tomcat 5 source code and publish them on the web site. Does anyone think this is a bad idea?
Yes, me. Being too strict with coding styles is IMO bad, esp since it does not reflect the code quality of developers (ex: Costin writes efficient code). Plus it would be finger pointing at the worst offenders (ex: probably still Costin ;-) ).
JDepend looks like some barely useable statistics (for simple components, it could be useful, but here it seems doubtful). Post the results if they are actually useful :)
Since tomcat doesn't use Maven(*), and we don't have targets for these checks in our ant builds, I can do it manually on my local machine. I just wanted to make sure no one had an issue with publishing them. I think it's a good, transparent move.
(*) = I'd like to use Maven ;) I even went as far as trying to write a maven POM for Tomcat 4.1 but the build was too complicated for my Maven skills at the time. Any Maven gurus out there are welcome to try...
I'm probably not a big Maven fan. The current build is still a mess, but works better than with TC 4.1.
Rémy
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