Re: pgindent run?
Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-22T17:36:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> [010322 07:12] wrote: > > It seems that you guys are dead set on using this pgindent tool, > > this is cool, we'd probably use some indentation tool on the FreeBSD > > sources if there was one that met our code style(9) guidelines. > > I would liken running pgindent to having a nice looking store or > website. No one is going to go to a website or a store only because it > looks nice, but having it look nice does keep people coming back. I'm not saying I don't like pgindent, I'm saying I don't like pgindent's effect on the CVS history. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.