Re: Lessons from commit fest

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Lessons from commit fest
Date: 2008-04-17 14:26:34
Message-ID: 20080417142634.GJ3846@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> The source code is the same for both Unix and Windows but you are right
> some typedefs are only visible on windows. I think most are from
> EXEC_BACKEND so compiling with/without that should help but then you
> have to merge the typedef lists, of course.

The source code is the same, of course, but typedef generation uses
object files, not source code.

> I count 2481 typedefs found on my build. I don't think we have to find
> every single typedef in the system for pgindent to be useful, but if we
> want people to be able to use this we should choose a single typedef
> file and all use that. I am willing to create a standard one for
> everyone and upload it daily to the community ftp server. It will not
> be perfect but I can improve it as people make suggestions.

Please do.

What are we going to do about the duality of Windows vs. non-Windows?
Perhaps we could collect typedefs generated on the buildfarm.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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