Re: Coding standards
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:23:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Coding standards | ||
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:49:10 -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
>Quoting Martin Jansen <mail@martin-jansen.de>:
>
>> People come up again and again and tell us that it keeps people
>> away from contributing because our coding standards are to
>> strict. Should we ignore them and miss some probably great
>> contributions?
>
>If you are talking about what has been referred to as the 'core', which is what
>I thought PEAR was in the first place, then yes. If they're too lazy to match a
>well-defined, consistent style, it probably says something about their code,
>too.
It seems as if there are a lot of people that have contributed
very much to PEAR and that agree more or less on your opinion.
I truly accept that and think we should stop this discussion
because there will be no result that satisfies everybody.
- Martin