[PATCH 1.12] A coding style for the server

Matt Dew marcoz at osource.org
Wed Jan 18 12:25:04 PST 2012


On 01/18/2012 11:59 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 01/18/12 07:08 AM, James Cloos wrote:
>> A consistent coding style is a Good Thing™.
>
> Yes.
>
>> The final indent command should be documented not only in the commit log
>> but also in a README file. That should help encourage those who submit
>> patches based on the tar releases also to maintain the resulting coding
>> style.
>>
>> Emacs and vim cookies matching the chosen style would be most useful.
>
> Putting the style in the wiki, with links to the emacs, vim, indent, etc.
> rules would be good to allow it to be shared across all our modules, and
> then we could just stick a link to the CodingStyle wiki page in the module
> README's.
>

For the lazy:
http://www.x.org/wiki/CodingStyle
<a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/CodingStyle">CodingStyle</a>


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