change manisort to produce a more intuitive order

[perl5.git] / Porting / pod_lib.pl

diff --git a/Porting/pod_lib.pl b/Porting/pod_lib.pl
index 6eaacde..4ad204c 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/pod_lib.pl
+++ b/Porting/pod_lib.pl
@@ -663,6 +663,35 @@ sub get_pod_metadata {
     return \%state;
 }
 
+# Try to get a sane sort. case insensitive, more or less
+# sorted such that path components are compared independently,
+# and so that lib/Foo/Bar sorts before lib/Foo-Alpha/Baz
+# and so that lib/Foo/Bar.pm sorts before lib/Foo/Bar/Alpha.pm
+# and so that configure and Configure sort together.
+sub sort_manifest {
+    return
+    # case insensitive sorting of directory components independently.
+    map { $_->[0] } # extract the full line
+    sort {
+        $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] || # sort in order of munged filename
+        $a->[0] cmp $b->[0]    # then by the exact text in full line
+    }
+    map {
+        # split out the filename and the description
+        my ($f) = split /\s+/, $_, 2;
+        # lc the filename so Configure and configure sort together in the list
+        my $m= lc $f; # $m for munged
+        # replace slashes by nulls, this makes short directory names sort before
+        # longer ones, such as "foo/" sorting before "foo-bar/"
+        $m =~ s!/!\0!g;
+        # replace the extension (only one) by null null extension.
+        # this puts any foo/blah.ext before any files in foo/blah/
+        $m =~ s!(\.[^.]+\z)!\0\0$1!;
+        # return the original string, and the munged filename
+        [ $_, $m ];
+    } @_;
+}
+
 1;
 
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