[PATCH] CMake: Enable building clang-format's Visual Studio plugin

Kim Gräsman kim.grasman at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 22:05:46 PST 2013


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
>> 2) The target audiences are fairly distinct. Most clang-format Visual Studio
>> extension users likely don't want or need an LLVM installation. This is the
>> crowd who'd benefit most from a single click installation on the download
>> page that works the same way as other VS extensions.
>>
>> Wouldn't it make more sense to offer the Visual Studio extension as a
>> separate download?
>
> If we want to support that, we should bake clang-format into the
> extension itself.
>
> Manuel: maybe that's what we should be doing?

I think that would make more sense. I'm already distributing private
builds of clang-format to co-workers who've installed the extension,
because the only way to get clang-format is to install all of LLVM.

FWIW,
- Kim



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