Re: [dev] Shell style guide

From: Antenore Gatta <antenore_AT_simbiosi.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:22:03 +0200

On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 11:35:35 -0700
Evan Gates <evan.gates_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> suckless.org projects have traditionally been small amounts of pure C.
> The code tends towards simplicity and correctness. I value this and
> have learned much over the past years from reading and contributing to
> various projects.
>
> The addition of stali means there will probably be a fair amount of
> shell scripting. In my experience the vast majority of shell scripts
> are complete crap. Worse than poor style are poor practices that
> create broken code. As such I propose that we add a shell scripting
> style guide to go along with the existing C style guide in hopes of
> keeping suckless.org's shell scripts as clean, simple, and correct as
> the C code.

I hope this is not a too stupid question, do we have anything we can
work on already (script, a document draft, whatever)?

Thanks!
 

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Antenore
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