[MPlayer-dev-eng] Offer of help to get me started

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:08:03AM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Evil Kosh writes:
> >  > 	Would anyone here object to a clear style guide being formed from the
> >  > developers here?  I'd be happy to reformat the code along those
> >  > guidelines, if it means I can help out, everyone gets clear, well
> >  > formatted code along an agreed style.
> > 
> > Arpi dislikes style guidelines and has refused them in the past.  Now
> 
> with reason...
> 
> imho it's a very bad idea (although very common) to force a given
> indentation/coding style to every developers.
> if someone wants to look at the code in a given indent/style, he can run
> 'indent' on the tree anytime. i see no reason for messing up the cvs with
> cosmetics.
> 
> but as diego mentioned, i don't play any more, so do what you want.
> just my 0.02 Forint or something :)

I'm all for keeping the existing policy. BTW, was this guy serious or
was he just trolling the list?

Rich