Re: Code formatter

[Chris Snyder]

Graham Percival wrote:
> Whatever.  You're giving up.  All this time I've spent trying to
> help you on this was wasted.  I'm sure that more experienced
> developers list are either laughing at me, or shaking
> their heads sadly... "oh that Graham, he's trying to help the
> beginners, but he still doesn't understand that it's just not
> worth it"

I'm not giving up. I would be happy to find and configure the proper 
tooling - automating it, even - if given a consistent, consensus-driven 
style standard - which doesn't currently exist.

I'd be happy to start posting messages to the mailing list with subjects 
like "Allow tabs in source code?" and "Bracket alignment," but I don't 
think many people would appreciate the noise. Also, it seems to me that, 
on some issues at least, the discussion has already occurred and is 
deadlocked.

You're approaching this as if it's a technical issue. As of now, it's 
not. I don't have the standing in the community to resolve the social 
issues that must be dealt with first.

As an aside, there is a Windows binary available for download from the 
astyle website.

-Chris