Re: [802.3_YANG] Maximum line length of YANG modules

[Marek Hajduczenia <mxhajduczenia@xxxxxxxxx>]

All the tools typically indent text appropriately so that it is more readable, but the 69 character limit per line has to be enforced manually - I do not think that it is a good use of the time of whoever develops the code right now to spend time on this, when we know there will ve changes and review. I would suggest we do the final 69-character-per-line alignment when we actually put that into RFC one day, and not right now ... 

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Robert Wilton <rwilton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Marek,

I'm not sure.  Without the formatting I think that they are hard to read and review.

Thanks,
Rob

On 14/12/2016 12:21, Marek Hajduczenia wrote:

Robert,

We *could* break them down to the proper limit when they are actually published as RFC and not bother with formatting so early on. Would that make more sense?

Marek

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Wilton [mailto:rwilton@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 6:44 AM
To: STDS-802-3-YANG@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.ORG
Subject: [802.3_YANG] Maximum line length of YANG modules

Hi,

IETF YANG modules lines are restricted to 69 characters. This is because
they are embedded into RFCS (max 72 characters/line), and the module
ends up being indented by 3 spaces in the RFC.

For my updates to the 802.3 Ethernet YANG modules, I am also currently
formatting the maximum line length to 69 characters, but I don't know if
IEEE uses a higher limit for MIBs/YANG modules. If I should be using a
different, higher limit, then please can you let me know, and I'll
reformat the descriptions accordingly.

Thanks,
Rob

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