Increase allowed line length about stone-soup

[sdhiscocks]

So even with screen real estate being larger, very long lines can be unreadable and can get messy are allows people to nest in more if block, for loops, etc. It also can become more difficult for side by side comparison, especially for 3-way merges (but these are rare to be fair).

We have a lot of equations and long variables names (which makes code more readable) that could really do with some more room, as they are becoming less readable by the time your forced to break them up over multiple lines. We also typically have the bulk of code in class methods, so lose 8 characters before you even get started.

There's always a balance to be had, but I think increasing to 99 characters would improve readability.

If we did make a change, I'd suggest we don't make one massive code change but allow the project to transition naturally as we make code changes.

[jmbarr]

😐

[DaveKirkland]

I don't really have a problem with this. Can a local flake8 configuration file be distributed with the project, so that it passes the flake8 testing? Or include instructions for how to manually configure this ourselves,

[etfrogers-dstl]

@DaveKirkland Yes, the flake8 configuration can be committed, if that what is wanted. I assume CircleCI would honour it (otherwise, we might have to configure that separately).

[rjgreen-dstl]

closed as addressed in #166