Re: libmutt and balsa coding style

[Ragnar Henriksen <ragnar juniks org>]

Maybe we all should take a look at:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/programming-guidelines/code-style.html

This describes the gnome project's prefered coding-style. And as far as I know, we're a part of it :)

Just a thougth.

-Ragnar-


On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 04:57:39 Peter Williams wrote:
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> > From: 	Peter Williams[SMTP:PETER@NEWTON.CX]
> > Sent: 	Monday, November 22, 1999 4:57:39 AM
> > To: 	Bruno Pires Marinho
> > Subject: 	Re: libmutt and balsa coding style
> > Auto forwarded by a Rule
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> 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
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