Re: perltidy version

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> +1.  We're not that far away from it being time to run
> pgindent/perltidy,
> >> so now would be a good time to consider whether we like a newer
> version's
> >> result better.
>
> > For example, Debian ships with 20140328, which produces the attached
> diff.
> > I'm not sure if we want to go to whatever is a "common version on most
> > platforms" today, or just "whatever is latest" if we do upgrade. AFAICT
> > RHEL 7 seems to be on 20121207, RHEL 6 on 20090616. And in Ubuntu, 14.04
> > has 20120701, 16.04 has 20140328, and current devel has 20140328. In
> > general there seems to be very little overlap there, except Debian and
> > Ubuntu covers the same versions.
>
> > (Note that this diff is against HEAD -- it's possible a perltidy run with
> > the current version would also generate a diff, I have not compared them
> to
> > each other)
>
> Yeah, perltidy 20090616 already produces a pretty substantial diff on
> HEAD; attached.
>

Ah yeah, if I apply that one first, the diff from using 20140328 is much
smaller. Attached is that one, which means the difference between the two
perltidy versions.

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