On 3/19/07, Paul Cochrane via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon Apr 24 12:57:16 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> running `per tools/dev/check_source_standards.pl` is disheartening, as
> there are thousands upon thousands of source standards exceptions.
>
> this is likely a combination of three things:
> 1) the standards (docs/pdds/clip/pdd07_codingstd.pod) is out-of-date
> wrt reality
> 2) the script is out-of-date wrt standards
> 3) the parrot coders are *really* sloppy wrt standards, or are not
> paying careful attention to them
>
> there are a few things that must be done to address this:
> 1) make sure the standards reflect reality
> addressed by the design team, by reviewing and approving the
> coding standard doc
>
> 2) make sure the script reflects the standards
> this can be fixed by anybody who can read english and C, and write
> perl
>
> 3) make sure parrot coders are mindful of the standard
> this can be fixed by running this script regularly, and generating
> an RT ticket with the results. svn can subsequently be used to blame
> the committers at fault :)
>
> ~jerry
The script tools/dev/check_source_standards.pl now (as of r17637) only
contains a test of the MANIFEST (the script also doesn't currently
work). I believe all tests which used to be part of this file are now
in t/codingstd and therefore this script can be renamed to something
more appropriate to what it does, or deleted. This ticket can then be
close.
What is the opinion as to what should be done with the script?
it's contained in the comments of this ticket:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39824
~jerry
