On 3/16/07, Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> I've been mucking around in the JavaHL bindings the past few days, and I
> have the following suggestions:
>
> 1) Update the .cpp and .java files to use the same coding style that the
> main codebase uses.
I am not sure it makes sense to force the .java files to follow a style used
in C/C++, but to be honest I am not familiar with the scope of what that
would mean. Maybe not much. For me, since I use tools like Eclipse, I
would just want the style to be something reasonable that I can set in
Eclipse and let it handle for me.
2) Rearrange methods within classes in alphabetical order, with older
> methods first in the case of overloaded methods.
>
> 3) Implement older APIs as wrappers around newer APIs in the same class.
> (Currently, some are implemented as wrappers around newer APIs in
> other classes.)
>
> I think this would improve maintainability substantially, but I wanted
> to know what others thought. Comments? Objections?
In general I am fine with the concept. I do not know what #3 means at a
technical level so cannot comment. Obviously the main issue is that the
changes do not make it too hard to backport future fixes, but I would say
that the number of those are likely to be a number approaching zero. So
better to do this now, well in advance of a 1.5 branch.
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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on Fri Mar 16 16:33:23 2007