Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 18:24, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On m?n, 2010-04-19 at 17:02 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> The MSVC scripts currently have a "perltidy coding style" so we run
> >> perltidy with a specific set of arguments to format the code. (This is
> >> in the README). Kind of like pgindent.
> >>
> >> Should we be doing this on all the perlscripts we use?
> >>
> >> And if we do, we should obviously use the same one everywhere -
> >> probably just use the one we have for the msvc stuff today. Anything
> >> in particular about that one that people hate?
> >
> > I tried it on create_help.pl and couldn't find a good combination of
> > options that I liked. ?It either adds too much whitespace or removes too
> > much, or both. ?Maybe that can be fined tuned. ?I wouldn't want to use
> > the -bl option; it's not a typical Perl style.
> 
> I doubt we're ever going to find a style taht everybody likes. Heck,
> everybody certainly don't like our C style. We just need to decide on
> one that's good enough and then go with it.
> 
> I don't recall exactly why -bl was added to the msvc style, but
> probably to make it look more like our C code ;)
> 
> I don't care too much exactly *what* we do, but I think we should have
> a common style...

Agreed.  We used to do this for Java when we had jdbc included.

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