On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 11:26:51 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
On Sunday, 26 November 2017 at 10:15:05 UTC, Manuel Maier wrote:
On Monday, 30 October 2017 at 22:22:42 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo
wrote:
[...] Unlike linters that are based on DScanner, it actually
invokes dmd on the file that is being edited, as you edit.
[...]
I just tried the plugin and it seems to work very well! Thanks
for the good work.
Thanks.
Have you considered invoking dub instead of dmd if there's a
dub.json/.sdl file? I imagine when people use
"preBuildCommands" to generate code, for example, the linter
might report false positives. Same goes for custom D versions
(e.g. `version(Have_foo) { ... }`).
No I haven't considered using dub. Does dub allow the
processing of a single file from the project without generating
code? Note that you don't want to build the whole project upon
every activation of the linter, because of speed but also
because of errors that do not apply to the file in the current
view.
Not sure about that, would need some investigating. From what I
can tell, dub docs have improved quite a bit in the past year.
There's also the --single feature of dub:
https://code.dlang.org/advanced_usage Such files may not work
correctly with this linter at this time I presume.
I don't see why not?
Sorry, let me rephrase. What I meant is that, with dub, you can
add dependencies (e.g. some http library) and define D versions.
So even tho it's only a single file, the invocation of dmd alone
is not sufficient to understand the code completely. I guess it
would be most useful if I created some test cases and documented
them.
All in all they way this plugin works is a great idea! The
more it knows about the full commandline of the resulting dmd
invocation, the more accurate it is.
If you have a case where it isn't sufficient, I am interested
to see how it can be improved. You can experiment with it as
explained here:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/zugbovfvfviapcjqd...@forum.dlang.org
Haven't experimented with it yet so it's all just speculation so
far. I'm quite interested in a dub linter. As far as I can tell
from a first glance at your plugin code, it doesn't seem too
complicated. I think I will investigate whether dub is suitable
for this endeavor and implement that aspect of the plugin myself.
If I have enough time in the coming days, of course. Will keep
you posted!
