Re: perltidy, bike sheds, and asbestos suits

On May 11, 2010, at 11:00 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

> On May 11, 2010, at 21:25, Robert Spier wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone else have any opinions on doing a massive perltidy?  I'm
>> on the fence.
> 
> I'm on the fence, too.   My concern is mostly for the people with private patches / hacked up versions.  (Maybe that makes less sense than I think it does).

I must be missing something. How exactly is this such a problem for them? 

Where by them, I include myself, because I just installed a customized version of qpsmtpd for a client, with a custom plugin that will never find its way into the qpsmtpd source tree.

If someone has a private hacked up version and wants to merge with the latest release, they just need to run perltidy on their private version first, using the same .perltidyrc file as the one in the distribution. Right?

Matt