[Melbourne-pm] Tidyview now available from CPAN

[Rob Casey]

> Note - some people feel that perltidy isn't safe to run over 
> their code, for fear it will change the semantics (meaning) 
> of their code. As far as I am aware, there are no bug reports 
> against perltidy stating that this has happened. I've heard 
> TheDamian once wrote a program for a perl obfuscation 
> competition that wasn't tidy'able (selfGOL). This code seems 
> to be hard to track down so I haven't had a chance to confirm 
> this. I feel pretty confidant that semantic changes arent a 
> problem. However, if people really want, I can add a 
> dependency on PPI::Signature to compare the parse trees 
> before and after tidy'ing, to guarantee semantic identity.

SelfGOL can be obtained from
http://libarynth.f0.am/cgi-bin/view/Libarynth/SelfGOL and
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1143566

 
 
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> g] On Behalf Of leif.eriksen at hpa.com.au
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:53 AM
> To: melbourne-pm at pm.org
> Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Tidyview now available from CPAN
> 
>  
> I'm very pleased to announce that tidyview is now available from CPAN.
> 
> Tidyview is a Tk-based GUI previewer for perltidy's many 
> options, to help ease the pain of trying to find just the 
> right set of options for your, or your organisations, 
> preferred coding style. Having a consistently applied coding 
> style, driven by a coding standard if required, is a big aid 
> to QA and debugging.
> 
> Tidyview can read and generate perltidy config files, and 
> displays your code before and after being formatted with the 
> currently selected set of perltidy formatting options. Once 
> your happy, just hit the "Save perltidyrc as..." button and 
> you have a config file for all your code. Tidyview displays 
> its own code if you don't supply a perl file for it.
> 
> Currently it only has Tk-bindings, but patches integrating 
> other bindings are welcome.
> 
> It also has dependencies on Perl::Tidy (part of the perltidy 
> application), Log::Log4perl and version. version.pm is a bit 
> problematic for people on case-insensitive filesystems (win, 
> cygwin etc) - it conflicts with Version.pm. version.pm is 
> used for the qv() operator, so we can test the version of Tk 
> and generate the right (that is, supported by that version) 
> set of widgets. Tidyview supports Tk back to early Tk8 
> releases. Log::log4perl is there to help me during these 
> early alpha days, I will remove it one day.
> 
> CPAN link - http://search.cpan.org/~leif/tidyview-1.09/
> 
> Code is also hosted at sourceforge.
> 
> Note - some people feel that perltidy isn't safe to run over 
> their code, for fear it will change the semantics (meaning) 
> of their code. As far as I am aware, there are no bug reports 
> against perltidy stating that this has happened. I've heard 
> TheDamian once wrote a program for a perl obfuscation 
> competition that wasn't tidy'able (selfGOL). This code seems 
> to be hard to track down so I haven't had a chance to confirm 
> this. I feel pretty confidant that semantic changes arent a 
> problem. However, if people really want, I can add a 
> dependency on PPI::Signature to compare the parse trees 
> before and after tidy'ing, to guarantee semantic identity.
> 
> Leif Eriksen
> 
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