Re: Fixes for 8.1 run of pgindent

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> It would be nice if the developers could run pgindent easily on their
> >> local trees to minimize conflicts.
> 
> > The entire NetBSD indent, already patched, is on our FTP server.  Isn't
> > that good enough?
> 
> News to me, and I guess to Alvaro too.  Is this mentioned in the
> Developer FAQ?

It is mentioned in the pgindent README, the idea being if you are going
to use pgindent, you would look at the README.

> > I can easily add the entire thing to CVS if people want that.
> 
> How big is it?  If it's not large, and we're not depending on any
> upstream maintenance to happen anymore, we could just dump it into
> our own CVS.

It is 160k.  I don't think it is being actively developed anymore.

> (Of course this just begs the question of whether we could convert
> over to GNU indent.  But I suppose that isn't a realistic option
> for the current go-round.)

Right.  Needs research.

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