Re: tasklist/checkstyle version dep

Petr Kuzel <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:42:24 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.tasklist.devel
Organization	Sun Microsystems
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

John Richardson wrote:

> Is the overlap that big?  My understanding is that they have different
> core goals:
>  - checkstyle focuses on consistent code style (brace positions,
>    naming, indentation, etc...) while
>  - PMD focuses on finding code which is valid source but could be a bug
>    (something like lint for Java)
> 
> For example, when I pinged the PMD folks, they thought indentation
> checking would find a better home in checkstyle than PMD.

Check <http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=121&thread=5224>.

  Cc.

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