[IPython-dev] The Big Split™ has begun

MinRK benjaminrk at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 13:46:18 EDT 2015


On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Nicholas Bollweg <nick.bollweg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> enforced by automated tools just forces people to spend time satisfying
>> the linter.
>>
>
> Well, I guess you're either spending time satisfying the linter, or
> spending two people's time satisfying the reviewer who sees the sea of -'s
> when someone changes one line in several files and their tool strips
> whitespace, explaining the non-policy, then has to go back through their
> commits and remove the hunks that make whitespace changes...
>

> But anyhow...
>
> No new history
>>
> So all of the new repos will be carrying the entire history of IPython, or
> is there dark filter-branch foo happening? Exciting either way! Good luck!
>

Thanks! There will be a small amount of filter-branching to strip files
that aren't part of the new repos, but that's it. Nothing too dark or
mysterious.

-MinRK


>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 25 March 2015 at 10:08, Nicholas Bollweg <nick.bollweg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> it really would be a lovely time to apply the Hammer of Whitespace and
>>> make source quality a part of the automation process.
>>>
>>
>> I don't want us to do that, regardless of the timing. PEP8 is a fine set
>> of guidelines, but having those guidelines rigidly enforced by automated
>> tools just forces people to spend time satisfying the linter.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
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