From b1aafbd95730bd826e55fad9e368630d835df573 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:33:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] mention the prefered source code line length to be less than 80 columns --- docs/CONTRIBUTE | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTE b/docs/CONTRIBUTE index 5d9675940..e601f2a23 100644 --- a/docs/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTE @@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ Commenting replaced when someone wants to extend things, since other persons' source code can get quite hard to read. +Line Lengths + + We try to keep source lines shorter than 80 columns. + General Style Keep your functions small. If they're small you avoid a lot of mistakes and @@ -189,5 +193,5 @@ How to get your patches into the libcurl sources simply drop such patches from my TODO list. 5. If you've followed the above mentioned paragraphs and your patch still - hasn't been incorporated after some weeks, consider resubmitting them to - the list. + hasn't been incorporated after some weeks, consider resubmitting it to the + list.