Re: Lessons from commit fest

bruce@momjian.us (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> > And I think adopting surrounding naming, commeting, coding conventions
>> > should come naturally as it can aide in copy-pasting too :)
>> 
>> I think pg_indent has to be made a lot more portable and easy to use
>> before that can happen :-) I've run it once or twice on linux machines,
>> and it comes out with huge changes compared to what Bruce gets on his
>> machine. Other times, it doesn't :-) So yeah, it could be that it just
>> needs to be made easier to use, because I may certainly have done
>> something wrong.
>
> Agreed, pgindent is too cumbersome to require patch submitters to use. 
> One idea would be to allow C files to be emailed and the indented
> version automatically returned via email.

Would it be a terrible idea to...

- Draw the indent code from NetBSD into src/tools/pgindent
- Build it _in place_ inside the code tree (e.g. - don't assume  it will get installed in /usr/local/bin)
- Thus have the ability to run it in place?
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