[Development] Resolving coding style contentions

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den ons 21 nov. 2018 kl 18:52 skrev Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.floss at gmail.com>:
>
> On 20/11/2018 03.28, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > I suggest that we stop arguing about coding styles by defining one
> > through a tool (aka clang-format and one format file for all of Qt).
>
> Ugh... clang-format is only okay if you want LLVM's code style, and it
> does obnoxious things like forcibly reflowing your arguments to
> "maximize space usage" (even when it results in aesthetically worse
> code) if you enable any line length options.
>
> Personally, I would encourage looking at uncrustify instead; it can
> apply as much or as little formatting as you want, for virtually
> whatever format you want. (Astyle was nice, once upon a time, but is
> basically dead AFAIK.)

Perfect. So instead of bikeshedding code style, we've progressed to
bikeshedding code stylers :) (100% kidding).

Elvis

>
> (Disclaimer: I contribute to uncrustify, so I'm biased :-).)
>
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> Matthew
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