Re: Flymake backends

[Ergus]

Hi Philip:


On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 07:17:08PM +0000, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> writes:
>
>
> There has been an attempt at abstracting over the current API in this
> project: https://github.com/mohkale/flymake-collection

Thanks for replying. I am looking the flymake-collection project and I
think that this is the kind of api we should offer to the user for
applications development. Even that one or a simplified version of that.

But sadly the project is not in elpa... so what should we do for that?


> > Because there are multiple functions the flymake code to simplify common
> > tasks, but they are intended for private use cases.
> >
> > It may simplify integration with other build systems like ninja or
> > cmake.
> >
> > So far something like flymake-quickdef, may help...
> >
> > 2) Is it desirable to add built-in backends to flymake for common/simple
> > tools generally available like cppcheck, flake and so on... to improve
> > the default experience and minimize configuration?
>
> I think that is of interest.  In Emacs 29 shellcheck was added for
> instance, and I don't see why other systems shouldn't be supported
> either (setting aside legal issues).

Then I think we should first provide a simpler api that we can maintain
better (i.e. bring functions like flymake-collection-define-rx to
vanilla)

And then we can make a list of the common backends we can support:

So far we only need to give a look to the backends supported by flycheck.

> > Best,
> > Ergus