[equinox-dev] Equinox coding conventions

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As more and more people are contributing
to Equinox (Thanks!) we thought it would make sense to point out the Equinox
coding conventions:

http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/documents/coding.php

In some ways these sort of guidelines can show up as restricting one's
freedom of artistic code formatting or variable naming _expression_. In practice
however, having a common set of coding practices is one of the ingredients
of our success. We have a large and growing body of committers in Equinox,
and a much larger community looking in and trying to understand what we
write.  Having common and consistent conventions makes our code easier
to read and work with for everyone.

In particular, check out the section
around formatter and compiler settings. These we should setup in each project
so that everyone is seeing the same errors and formatting the same way.
We're also going to experiment with enabling automatic formatting and code
cleanup on save, so we can just forget about these issues and let the tools
do the work.