On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:57:41PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> 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 :-)
Well, initially, yes, but others have improved them over time.
> > > 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.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
> 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.
Yes, I would love to hear a Perl person chime in here to tell us it is
OK, as you stated.
I suppose if we don't get any feedback in a few days, let's just go
ahead and make the changes you suggested.
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