= Coding Style =

This page documents possible coding conventions for MapServer.

== Artistic Style (astyle) ==

[http://astyle.sourceforge.net/ 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)