[Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:51:36 +1100, Lex wrote:

>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.

Ack.



>> 2) Use the HTML report[1] script (uses awesome Pygments) for
>> displaying results as you mentioned.

Sounds interesting. Will have a look at these after I finished
reworking the nightly build setup. Though this might take another two
or three weeks.

Regards,
Enrico

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