Linty - C/C++ Style Checking with Python & libclang
Linty is a style checker built upon Python and libclang.
Status
Linty is currently under heavy development.
There are some basic checks. The main work currently is the indentation check module. There, we aim to provide fine-grained control over the style, compa- rable with the available settings in the Eclipse CDT settings.
Contributions through merge requests are welcome. However, consider that large patch bombs hard hard to review. It is recommended to contact the authors with the intent of your changes. This allows us to help you with any problems and will speed up incorporations of patches.
Support for Objective-C and Microsoft SEH is currently not implemented, contri- butions in this area are welcome, though.
Running
Linty is a collection of checks and driver code to run them. You write "confi- guration" files for it that are actual Python programs. For example, run the seqan style checker:
python conf/seqan/run.py -i ${include_dir} -s ${source_file}
Tests
There is a comprehensive suite of tests, we use the [nosetests framework] 1
for writing such tests. There currently is a known issue with garbage
collection that occurs when running nosetests. As a workaround, use the
--nologcapture option to nosestest:
nosetests --nologcapture
Authors
- Manuel Holtgrewe
Acknowledgements
The indentation checks roughly follow the design of the Checkstyle tool for checking Java source code.