Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of lun jun 11 15:44:16 -0400 2012:
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:20:13PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > > Hm, does this touch stuff that would also be modified by perltidy? I
> > > > wonder if we should refrain from doing entab/detab on perl files and
> > > > instead have perltidy touch such code.
> >
> > > The Perl files were modified by perltidy and not by pgindent, as
> > > documented in the pgindent README:
> > >
> > > 9) Indent the Perl MSVC code:
> > >
> > > cd src/tools/msvc
> > > perltidy -b -bl -nsfs -naws -l=100 -ole=unix *.pl *.pm
> >
> > Oh, I see. That's great then. Should those change be committed
> > separately, just to avoid confusion? BTW those aren't the only Perl
>
> Not sure. I just followed the README instructions. I should just
> probably mention the Perl files were not processed by pgindent on the
> commit.
Well, you wrote the instructions yourself :-)
> > files in the source tree -- we also have the genbki stuff, for example.
> > (There is already some inconsistency in tabs/spaces in genbki.pl
> > already)
>
> I was not aware of them. If you want them run, would you update the
> pgindent README to mention them please?
What about something like this in the root of the tree:
find . -name \*.pl -o -name \*.pm | xargs perltidy -b -bl -nsfs -naws -l=100 -ole=unix
There are files all over the place. The file that would most be
affected with one run of this is the ECPG grammar generator.
I checked the "-et=4" business (which is basically entab). We're pretty
inconsistent about tabs in perl code it seems; some files use tabs
others use spaces. Honestly I would just settle on what we use on C
files, even if the Perl devs don't recommend it "because of
maintainability and portability". I mean if it works well for us for C
code, why would it be a problem in Perl code? However, I don't write
much of that Perl code myself.
> > > > Perhaps the thing to do is ensure that perltidy also uses tabs instead
> > > > of spaces.
> > >
> > > If you would like 'entab' run on the Perl files, let me know.
> >
> > Whatever perltidy emits is fine with me, but should we consider passing
> > -et=4 to perltidy?
>
> No idea. I do not work in those files enough to have an opinion.
What do others think? Maybe I'm just being obnoxious here for no useful
gain.
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