[Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

[Lex Trotman]

On 9 March 2011 09:11, Matthew Brush <matthewbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/08/11 10:58, Enrico Tröger wrote:
>>
>> As I'm currently reworking the system to create the nightly builds, we
>> could integrate such checks into the nightly builds, maybe run cppcheck
>> on the sources after the builds and present the results somewhere on
>> nightly.geany.org.
>
> A couple ideas:
>
> 1) Parse cppcheck XML output with Python[1] (or whatever) and remove any
> failing plugins from the main Makefile.am listed in the 'plugins' variable
> so they don't build.

Disagree with removing plugins from nightly builds, testing will find
many more errors than these checks will, and removing the plugin makes
it unavailable for testing.  I would support having failing plugins as
a second tier release, but never remove access completely.

Cheers
Lex
>
> 2) Use the HTML report[1] script (uses awesome Pygments) for displaying
> results as you mentioned.
>
> They have already written most of the code for both ideas.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/blob/master/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush (codebrainz)
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