arjan tijms wrote on 04/ 9/18 02:39 PM:
Hi Bill,
I agree fully that it's impossible to find any kind of
convention where all people agree on all the details. But that
too wasn't really the intention. Instead the idea is that an
already widely used style is proposed and committers from all
projects could have some say in it. Eventually it could be put
to a vote, and if a sufficient majority agrees with it, we
adopt that as the official guidelines.
You would just be painting a bike shed that doesn't need new paint.
As Rudy says, have that as the guide line / recommended
style.
Great, so save some time and just use that. You now have your
recommended style. Problem solved.
And if some projects don't follow it exactly, that's fine. The
value is in getting close, not in strict adherence to the rules.
Because it already has a different convention. I'm not suggesting
that the project would change its existing convention to something
different than the recommendation, but rather that it would keep
using something different than the recommendation.
Understood, but you're not going to get all projects to adhere to
it.
You have a recommendation that will be useful to projects that
understand the value of following it. That's about the best you're
going to get.
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