Hi, On Saturday, August 31, 2013, Bill Ward wrote:
> Is it truly only ever going to work on Perl code? Mightn't it also be > pluginnable to rewrite other kinds of files? > > If it does, Code:: would be a better place. There is already Code::TidyAll. Bye, > On Friday, August 30, 2013, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 06:11:03 +0100 >> Robert Rothenberg <r...@cpan.org> wrote: >> >> > At $work, I've been writing scripts that use PPI to munge massive >> amounts >> > of legacy code. So far simple things like changing die/warn to >> croak/carp, >> > ensuring all modules specify a minimum version number, or changing print >> > "foo\n" so say "foo", etc. It seems worthy enough to turn this code >> into a >> > CPAN module. >> > >> > My thoughts are that it would use a plugin system for specific tasks, >> and a >> > command-line script that takes plugin names as arguments, so basically >> > you'd run the script to apply various tasks to a set of modules or >> scripts >> > in a directory, perhaps using a configuration file for each of the >> plugins. >> > >> > The early version would have simple plugins, but there's no reason why >> more >> > complex plugins couldn't be written (e.g. to translate a non-Moose >> class >> > into something Moose-like), or other things like optimize certain kinds >> of >> > expressions. >> > >> > I'm well aware of the limitations of doing this automatically. But the >> idea >> > is to get a script that can do the bulk of the tedious rewriting, so >> that a >> > human can clean up the mistakes. It's meant to be run by intelligent >> people >> > who use things like version control and tests. >> > >> > So what should it be called? I'm thinking Perl::Rewrite is the best >> name. >> > >> > > Alternatives are: >> > > - Perl::Refactor - except "refactoring" has a technical meaning that I >> > don't think applies >> > > - Perl::Modernize - except that one might want a plugin that >> translates >> > newer-style code into older code >> > > - Perl::Munge - except that it connotes sloppiness >> > > - Perl::Snorft - no, just kidding.... I have no idea what that means. >> > > - ? >> >> Perl::Modify? Perl::Transform? Perl::Revise? I don't like Perl::Rewrite >> too >> much because it may (but not necessarily) imply rewriting from scratch. >> >> Regards, >> >> Shlomi Fish >> >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ >> Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ >> >> “My only boss is God. And Chuck Norris who is his boss.” >> — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ >> >> Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply. >> > > > -- > Check out my LEGO blog at brickpile.com <http://www.brickpile.com/> > Follow/friend me: Facebook <http://facebook.com/billward> • > Flickr<http://flickr.com/photos/billward/>• > Twitter <http://twitter.com/williamward> • > LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/william-ward/63/393/985/> > > -- Pedro Melo @pedromelo http://www.simplicidade.org/ xmpp:m...@simplicidade.org mailto:m...@simplicidade.org
