Coding Style

This page documents possible coding conventions for MapServer.

Artistic Style (astyle)

​Artistic Style (astyle) is source code formatting tool, and allows for flexible definitions (spaces, padding, indents, one liners, etc.) to automatically format source code for a given coding convention.

Here is a sample invocation:

$ astyle --style=kr --unpad=paren --indent=spaces=2 mslibxml2.c

Coding Conventions

• style (k&r, gnu, linux)
• tabs an brackets (tabs, spaces)
• indentation
• formatting (parens)