Re: Serious bug in idl compiler (non-compiling generated files)

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 16:30 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > Could you expand on your thoughts about indent?
> 
> 	Oh - we used to produce _excessively_ huge & ugly code from orbit-idl,
> but what's there now should be much smaller & neater.

Still do in my opinion...
 
>  Hence we used to
> (still do?) 

yes

> fork indent & pipe the data through that to make it look
> nicer. 

but makes the compilation orders of magnitude slower.

> I'd like to stop that process happening / hack that code out,
> it's just a source of problems / errors I think.

I couldn't agree more. I have been tempted to do that for some time
myself. Indentation should be something that is run by the user *after*
IDL compilation, not during.

I'll produce a patch that removes the inbuilt fork of indent after
Christmas.


Best regards,
  jules