Need reviewer on addition of whitespace normalizer script

[Joe Darcy]

Looks fine Kelly; great to have this sort of script included with the 
JDK itself.

-Joe

On 3/1/2012 1:32 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> Need reviewer. Adding the whitespace normalizer script as a convenience to the jdk developers.
>
> 6625113: Add the normalize and rmkw perl script to the openjdk repository or openjdk site?
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk8/normalizer-script/webrev/
>
> Probably a little history is warranted here. This script was originally written to normalize the
> whitespace in the jdk7 sources as they entered the Mercurial repositories in "changeset 0".
> It's been modified since then very slightly. I can't recall who wrote it (please speak up if you know)
> but it has been a valuable tool and I've had this CR to add it to the make/scripts directory for some time.
>
> The SCCS keyword removed (rmkw) was less useful, and I decided that it did not deserve being added.
>
> Why whitespace normalization? This was decided a long time ago when we had a raft of complaints from
> people viewing the sources with different tools and getting different views based on the TABs and trailing
> blanks or trailing newlines. So we decided to normalize on no TABs, no trailing blanks on lines, and
> no more than one blank line at the end of the file. This script was used to do that normalization.
>
> -kto
>