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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:50:51 +0100
From: Gilles Sadowski <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org>
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Subject: Re: [ALL] Commons Parent reports
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:52:32PM -0400, Gary Gregory wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:40, Gilles Sadowski <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
> >>>
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The tools are there, but you have to tell people that they _must_ use them.
> >>>>
> >>>> Commons has already enough rules and process. As long as the releases
> >>>> are have clean code I wouldn't be too anal about the commits in
> >>>> between.
> >>>
> >>> I think that the main disagreement is here. Source code must be a clear read
> >>> for the _developers_. To put it bluntly, I don't care that the releases have
> >>> cleanly formatted code, as almost nobody is going to read those packaged
> >>> sources!
> 
> Au contraire, most users will /only/ look at the source jar because
> that is what you use in the debugger!

Here IMHO you are talking about _developers_.
By users I meant people who include the classes JAR in their classpath.
They will at most look at the API docs.


Gilles

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