[clang-tools-extra] r280840 - Add a clang-tidy visual studio extension.

[Zachary Turner via cfe-commits]

Yea, that’s actually another reason I suggest trying the Clang Power Tools
extension. It seems to have “won” in this area, and few people ever used
the LLVM one to begin with.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:09 PM Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 4:54 PM Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Honestly I hadn’t thought about this ever since the patch. Out of
> curiosity, have you tried the clang power tools extension? I think it’s
> more actively maintained and at this point probably even is good enough
> that this one could just go away
>
> I've not tried either, truth be told. :-D This came up in GrammaTech
> while I was reviewing someone's clang-tidy check for upstreaming.
> Given how much I review clang-tidy checks on trunk, the fact that I
> hadn't heard of this file surprised me so I did some code archaeology
> and here we are. I don't have a strong opinion on whether this has
> been superseded or not, but I probably should know whether clang-tidy
> check authors are required to maintain this or not.
>
> Btw, I didn't see any bug reports about missing checks. In fact, the
> only bug report I can find for clang-tidy-vs suggests it may not even
> work. https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34176
>
> ~Aaron
>
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:52 PM Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:37 PM Zachary Turner via cfe-commits
> >> <cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Author: zturner
> >> > Date: Wed Sep  7 13:28:55 2016
> >> > New Revision: 280840
> >> >
> >> > URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=280840&view=rev
> >> > Log:
> >> > Add a clang-tidy visual studio extension.
> >> >
> >> > For now this only adds the UI necessary to configure clang-tidy
> >> > settings graphically, and it enables reading in and saving out
> >> > of .clang-tidy files.  It does not actually run clang-tidy on
> >> > any source files yet.
> >>
> >> Sorry to resurrect an old commit, but this commit added the following:
> >>
> >> Added:
> clang-tools-extra/trunk/clang-tidy-vs/ClangTidy/Resources/ClangTidyChecks.yaml
> >> URL:
> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/clang-tools-extra/trunk/clang-tidy-vs/ClangTidy/Resources/ClangTidyChecks.yaml?rev=280840&view=auto
> >>
> ==============================================================================
> >> ---
> clang-tools-extra/trunk/clang-tidy-vs/ClangTidy/Resources/ClangTidyChecks.yaml
> >> (added)
> >> +++
> clang-tools-extra/trunk/clang-tidy-vs/ClangTidy/Resources/ClangTidyChecks.yaml
> >> Wed Sep  7 13:28:55 2016
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,325 @@
> >> +---
> >> +Checks:
> >> +   # This file should be updated when new checks are added, and
> >> eventually we should
> >> +   # generate this file automatically from the .rst files in
> clang-tidy.
> >>
> >> However, as best I can tell, this file is not reliably updated and is
> >> currently *very* out of date (in fact, it's only been updated twice in
> >> two years). You had mentioned in the review thread that you wanted to
> >> think of a way to automate this from RST
> >> (https://reviews.llvm.org/D23848?id=69168#inline-204743) -- any chance
> >> you're still thinking on that and have a solution in mind? ;-)
> >>
> >> ~Aaron
>
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