Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add perltidy.

[Roel Janssen]

Andreas Enge writes:

> Hello,
>
> sorry for being late, but the number of messages on the list is simply
> overwhelming...

Thanks for your reply :)

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 01:01:07PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> “perltidy” (as in the domain name) or “perl-tidy” (as in the tarball)?
>> I don’t remember what our naming guidelines say about this.  (I think
>> “perltidy” is correct.)
>
> Is it a perl "module"? Then it should be named "perl-tidy":
>    
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Perl-Modules.html#Perl-Modules
> If it is a perl "binary", then keeping the upstream name is the good solution.
>
> In this case, maybe the latter holds? There is a ready-to-use perl script, but
> also a file Tidy.pm.

>From the man-page of "perltidy":
  Perltidy reads a perl script and writes an indented, reformatted
  script.

So even though it does provide a Perl::Tidy module, it's also a
stand-alone program that reformats existing Perl code.  What we could to
is split the package in two: one with the Perl::Tidy module (called
perl-tidy) and one with the stand-alone script (called perltidy).  I
think that would be a little confusing though.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen