How to update PerlTidy

patspam wrote on Tue May 27 10:22:03 MEST 2008:

EPIC 0.5.45 ships with perltidy v1.46 which doesn't support the Perl Best
Practices formatting shortcut (-pbp or --perl-best-practices).

It looks like EPIC calls perltidy as follows:
"" "perltidy" "-q" "--indent-columns=4" "--maximum-line-length=80"
"--entab-leading-whitespace=4" 

Relative to the dir:
/org.epic.perleditor/perlutils/perltidy/

The dir listed above has a local copy of Perl::Tidy as well as the perltidy
script.

Thus if you install your own version of perltidy, e.g. (Ubuntu)
 apt-get install perltidy

And then replace EPIC's perltidy script with your own:
 cd /org.epic.perleditor/perlutils/perltidy/
 mv perltidy perltidy.orig
 ln -s /usr/bin/perltidy perltidy

And 'hide' EPIC's local copy of Perl::Tidy from perl:
 cd /org.epic.perleditor/perlutils/perltidy/
 mv Perl Perl.orig

Then EPIC will start using the (newer) version of PerlTidy that you installed.
PBP bliss!

Patrick
http://patspam.com