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Le sam. 28 mai 2022 à 04:36, Miro Tomaska <mtomaska at redhat.com> a écrit :

> Hello All,
>
> This is probably going to be a hot topic but I was wondering if the
> community ever considered raising the default 79 characters line limit. I
> have seen some places where even a very innocent line of code needs to be
> split into two lines. I have also seen some code where I feel like variable
> names were abbreviated on purpose to squeeze everything into one line.
>
> How does the community feel about raising the E501 limit to 119
> characters? The 119 character limit is the second most popular limit
> besides the default one. It's long enough to give a developer enough room
> for descriptive variables without being forced to break lines too much. And
> it is short enough for a diff between two files to look OK.
>
> The only downside I can see right now is that it's not easy to convert an
> existing code. So we will end up with files where the new code is 79+
> characters and the "old" code is <=79. I can also see an argument where
> someone might have trouble reviewing a patch on a laptop screen (assuming
> standard 14" screen) ?
>
> Here is an example of one extreme, a diff of two files maxing out at 119
> characters
>
> https://review.opendev.org/c/opendev/sandbox/+/843697/1..2
>
> Thank you for your time and I am looking forward to this conversation :)
>
>

My personal opinion is while I understand the reasoning behind, my concern
is about the community support. We don't have a lot of contributors at the
moment, and if we would like to modify the default limit, I'm pretty sure
it would take a lot of time for folks at least reviewing some changes that
are not really priorities...

Also, as said by some folks, changing the default would also create some
problems for some of our contributors and eventually, if some projects
would accept 119 characters while some others not,  it would also be a new
community difference between projects... (and yet again some new nit that
new contributors need to understand)

Sorry, -1 for those reasons.



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> Miro Tomaska
> irc: mtomaska
> Red Hat
>
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