Re: libmutt and balsa coding style

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 07:59:44 Bruno Pires Marinho wrote:
> Hello fellows.
> 
> I know balsa someday will have evolution for backend but for now we are
> stuck with libmutt. I think libmutt evolved since someone add it
> to balsa and the version on balsa was not updated since then. (I'm
> guessing this last part).
> 
> So I was thinking in downloading the latest libmutt and fix somebugs
> wandering about on the current balsa backend. But before doing this I
> need to know if you people think this is going to take me anywhere.
> 

Is libmutt really a separate package? I was under the impression that
Stuart just took most of the mutt source tree, patched it, and added it
to Balsa. If this is not the case, all you *should* have to do is replace
the source in balsa/libmutt with the new stuff.

> I'm also interested in makeing the balsa code style uniform but I don't
> like too mutch the styles people are using. Can I impose my code style
> here? ... maybe not ... or if you people could take a look at the one I'm
> using on gtm (http://camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt/~bapm/gtm/) and tell me what
> you people think about this subject it would be great. (Special you,
> Stuart, because the project is yours). Or even better, define the standard
> and we all follow that (and I take the responsability of updating all the
> code to this selected style).
> 

This is an interesting thing... my coding style, for instance, is very
different than most in Balsa. IMHO unless we find one style particularly
unreadable keeping to a consistent style is not a big deal.

I've looked over your code quickly and the style looks fine to me.

> I'm sending an email to Miguel to get an CVS account to work on balsa...
> and I need that to start adding stuff to balsa.
> 

Good... the more the merrier.

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Peter Williams peter@newton.cx