[postgis-devel] Code formatting digging in

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 07:05:14PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:

> QGIS (to look at close neighbours) used to ship their own version
> of astyle to deal with it. Recently they introduced again ability
> to use the system astyle, do we want to try that again ?
> https://github.com/qgis/qgis/commit/c48e0069aee5360f71d3128a1f3c14775b7fb491
> 
> QGIS now requires astyle 3.0+

Just to give more info: the version of astyle that QGIS ships
is 3.1, they just embed the full source code in qgis codebase.

It only takes 664K:

  664K    external/astyle/

That'd be ~1% of the current PostGIS source code.
I would not be against doing the same.

--strk;