Geoff Thorpe wrote:
On December 8, 2003 03:58 pm, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Lionel Ulmer wrote:
- or even better, write a re-tabulator which produce source code
following THE RULES (tool that would be applied to all source code on each commit).
So it's certainly possible to have it working :-)
LionelNot to mention that, a while back, I offered to write a small perl script that will bring all sent patches into a consistent format. I never even heard back from anyone what format this patch can expect to receive and send the mail, nor what the system is running.
Um, there was a fair bit of discussion as I recall - and Alexandre expressed an interest along the way too. For my part, I may have thrown too many spanners into the works (having the script customisable for individual users to rewrite mails into their preferred layout - eg. Dimi doesn't like attachments). However I'm curious that you thought noone was interested, because I for one have been very much looking forward to seeing how it works out! :-)
On the contrary. I said that, except for Dimi (who doesn't like attachments), everyone WERE interested. It's just that, in order to write such a script, I need to know whether I can ask for perl modules installed on the server, how is my script going to interact with the mail system, etc. I never got answers to those questions.
Cheers, Geoff
Shachar