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1272	Problems with codetest on files in ext/ directory (should ext/ be included in codetest?)	mikehh		"I have recently been getting codetest failures with t/codingstd/pod_syntax.t in ext/nqp-rx

I did fix the files in question (redundant =cut at the end) but found that there were a whole bunch of trailing spaces that my editor removed on saving the file that were not picked up by the trailing spaces test.

Subsequent commits to that directory did not include the fixes I made and I was required to redo the fixes.

The situation is that we should either run all codingstd tests on the files in the ext directory or none.

We should bear in mind that the files in the ext directory are external to parrot.

pmichaud++ stated that the files are generated and that it would be difficult to fix the generator to prevent the generation of trailing spaces.

also:

<pmichaud> mikehh: imo, we shouldn't be running codetest on things in ext/[[BR]]
<pmichaud> mikehh: if you're editing the files in ext/nqp-rx, it won't do much good -- they get overwritten by newer versions


The problem is that the fixes are not 'permanent' and the next time the code is committed to parrot, if the fixes have not been included upstream the failure re-occurs.
"	RFC	closed	normal		testing	1.7.0	medium	done