[Mageia-dev] Suggest summary documentation of Mageia perl routines

Wed Aug 24 17:35:53 CEST 2011

On 24 August 2011 14:05, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> at mga as well as set up perl_checker mails again in order to auto catch
+>> bugs)
+>
+> perl_checker doesn't catch bugs, but violations to an hard-coded coding
+> style policy, which is quite different...
+
+Please only speak about what you used.
+If you don't believe me, just look at the drakx SVN's log[1], we fixed
+quite a lot bugs
+because of perl_checker:
+- corrupted variable names,
+- too many or not enough (missing) arguments in function calls,
+- ...
+
+We routinely run it before commiting, thus catching small issues
+before releasing them.
+
+It doesn't fix everything but it does save quite a lot of pain.
+
+Latest example is in rpmdrake where new mdv devs upload a plain broken release
+whereas it's now quite a lot more difficult now that I've make
+perl_checker run prior
+to that:
+http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/soft?view=revision&sortby=date&revision=271213
+http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/rpmdrake/current/SPECS/rpmdrake.spec?r1=572521&r2=587847
+
+[1] (though we lost one year of changelog due to server issues)
+