[Koha-devel] is there currently a perltidy/formatting policy for koha?

[MJ Ray]

"Mason James" <mason at katipo.co.nz> wrote:
> what is everyones opinion about using a standardised perltidy style on  
> Koha commits?

It's a good idea.

> what perltidy style shall we standardise on?, any ideas?

No strong opinion.

> is there any reason not to use perltidy before committing?

It will result in a massive diff if you run it over the whole file.  I
suggest only reformatting existing code if you change it, or maybe at
some future branch point.

> FYI: i have recently discovered 'perltidy -sob foo.pl',
> which seems to chomp up (and add) extra blanks lines between code too,
> this option would be helpful for having consistent line spacing too

Does it obliterate paragraph breaks in a block of code?

> i have found using perltidy helps alot to reduce false 'cvs diff' lines

That may be done better by using cvs diff -b and similar options.

Hope that helps,
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