Re: branching for 9.2devel

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-04-26T01:07:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 04/25/2011 09:02 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> The current script calls our (patched) BSD indent. Any rewrite would 
> have to also. It (the BSD indent) doesn't have any facility to pass a 
> typedef file parameter. If you want that we have to patch the C code. 
> No amount of rewriting in Perl or anything else would overcome that. 
> My suggestion was to work around it as part of a script rewrite, but 
> you didn't seem to like that idea.
>

Oh, it just occurred to me that maybe you thought the whole thing 
*including* indent would be reimplemented in perl. That was never my 
intention, and is a much larger project than I had in mind.

cheers

andrew