Re: [Vala] Coding standard: indentation?

[Michel Salim <michel sylvan gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Michel Salim <michel sylvan gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Phil Housley <undeconstructed gmail com> wrote:
> > 2009/2/9 Michel Salim <michel sylvan gmail com>:
>
> > > Incidentally, would it be a good idea to move the tutorial code to a
> > > module under version control? That way they can be matched to different
> > > Vala releases, and developers can track Vala's evolution by tracking
> > > changes in the sample programs.
> >
> > Would be good, but also a bit of a management problem.  Not only would
> > they have to be kept synchronized, it would also make it trickier to
> > let people add and maintain...  Possibly a separate repo could be used
> > to keep the history around in an easier to track way than wiki, but
> > someone would still have to put quite a lot of time into it.
> A separate repo is definitely worthwhile. The current wiki-based
> set-up is harder for both experienced Vala hands to maintain, and for
> new users, since some of the code is likely to be stale at any given
> time.
>
> With a repo, all the sample code can be built automatically every time
> there is a new release, and can serve as a poor man's unit testing
> too.
>
> I'm starting a project on Gitorious to start collating these examples.
> Any idea what licenses these code samples are supposed to be? I'm
> assuming something liberal like BSD.
OK, here it is. Please advise as to licensing for code samples --
could it even be public domain instead of BSD?

http://gitorious.org/projects/vala-samples

(there is an interface for requesting merges from different
repositories, and anyone with regular contribution can be added to the
commit list).

Incidentally, something funny happens on my box (Fedora Rawhide,
x86_64) with the string example:

The string 'cr?me br?l?e' is 12 characters long and is stored in 15 bytes

The accents disappear on printing?

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