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- Welcome to Perltidy!
- Perltidy is a tool to indent and reformat perl scripts. It can also
- write scripts in html format.
-
- Perltidy is free software released under the GNU General Public License
- -- please see the included file "COPYING" for details.
-
- PREREQUISITES
- Perltidy is programmed to work with versions of Perl as old as 5.004.
- (You can find your version with "perl -v"). However, some systems this
- old may have problems, particularly Windows versions.
-
- This this release was successfully tested on a 5.004_04 linux
- distribution (1997) and a 5.005_03 Windows version (ActiveState build
- 522, 1999).
-
- The following modules are not required, but perltidy may use them if
- detected:
-
- Win32 will be used to help identify a Windows system if detected
- HTML::Entities will be used to encode HTML entities if detected
- Pod::Html will be used to format pod text
-
- The total disk space needed after removing the installation directory
- will about 1 Mb.
-
- DOWNLOAD
- There are two source distribution files:
-
- * A .tgz "tarball", with Unix-style <lf> line endings, and
-
- * A zip file, .zip, with Windows-style <cr><lf> line endings.
-
- INSTALLATION
- For most standard installations, the standard Makefile.PL method should
- work:
-
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make test
- make install
-
- The INSTALL file has additional installation notes.
-
- WHAT NEXT
- Please see the CHANGES file for notices of any recent updates.
-
- Please see the BUGS file for a list of all known open bugs.
-
- Documentation can be found in the docs directory, and it can also be
- found at http://perltidy.sourceforge.net
-
- Reading the brief tutorial should help you use perltidy effectively.
-
- Perltidy is still being developed, so please check sourceforge
- occasionally for updates. New releases are announced on freshmeat.net.
-
- FEEDBACK / BUG REPORTS
- Bug reports, comments and suggestions are welcome. Attach the smallest
- piece of code which demonstrates the bug or issue. Your efforts are
- greatly appreciated!
-
- Thank You
-
- Steve Hancock
- perltidy at users.sourceforge.net
- http://perltidy.sourceforge.net
-
-