[Opensim-dev] Proposal for a cleanup/correction of the region-module system

[Ryan McDougall]

My apologies for thread-jacking...

I just want to be clear I didn't propose it because I came later and
decided I didn't like UK spelling. I am Canadian and historically
Canadians have used UK spelling.

I proposed it for the same reason (US) English is the standard
language of all things international; business, science, open source,
etc: we have to pick one anyway, there will be more people unhappy
with the choice than happy, so might as well just pick the most common
one and suck it up.

That said, I don't actually care a lot UK v. US. However, I *do* think
there should be coding standards and I *do* think they should be
enforced, regardless of what any individual person likes. That means
naming conventions, indentation, and spelling. Its an issue of common
standards, professionalism, code quality, and cooperation.

Cheers,

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, MW <michaelwri22 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Yeah I wasn't really being serious that we should try to get as many
> spelling systems or langauges as we can.
>
> So I do agree that it would be best to have one, but its hard to force
> people to use one system if that is different to what they are used to. Its
> just natural to spell as you normally do.
>
> But if we are going with one then my vote has to be for UK spelling, as I
> said thats how the project started and to be honest I think it would be
> wrong to swap it later because as more people joined they decided they
> didn't like the spelling system. We really did have it in the code standards
> at one time that we used UK spelling.
>
> And also we have about as many core developers from the UK as anywhere else.
>
> But saying all that in the grand scheme of things this isn't really a big
> deal.
>
> Sean Dague <sdague at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> bMW wrote:
>> But it is in our code standards somewhere that we use UK spelling in
>> opensim code. ;) Or it used to be in there.
>>
>> But no I don't think really we can force people to use a different system
>> of spelling to what they are used to. As I feel as strong about not liking
>> the US spelling as you do about UK ones.
>>
>> But I would be extremely sad if all the current code was swapped to US
>> spelling. This was started as a UK project as it was just myself working on
>> it at the start.
>>
>> But its now a international project, let lets try and get as many spelling
>> systems as possible in there, lets even try for different languages ;)
>
> Honestly, we should pick one and run with it, and I don't really care
> which one. The lack of standardization here causes plenty of confusion
> for those of us not in auto-completing environments about which version
> to use. :)
>
> -Sean
>
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