[cfe-dev] Clang-format / clang-tidy VS plugin

[Piotr Padlewski via cfe-dev]

I like the idea, it would be nice to get new users for clang-tidy. I was
thinking about the same thing some time ago, but didnt have much time to
look closer.

On Aug 14, 2016 08:44, "Zachary Turner via cfe-dev" <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>
wrote:

> I was thinking about some ways to improve clang-format, and possibly even
> add clang-tidy to the list of things our VS plugin supports.  Perhaps even
> merge them into a single plugin.  But you know, I'm a windows person, and I
> want a UI.  I don't want to just click a button and have it use some
> settings that are on disk that I edited by hand, I'd like to be able to
> edit the settings themselves through a nice UI, like everything in VS.
>
> This is kind of difficult if the plugin shells out to an external tool
> without linking against it, because it doesn't have any knowledge of what
> specific options and features the version it's calling might support in
> order to build the appropriate UI to set them.  On the other hand, if it
> links against the tool, this all becomes very easy, because the plugin can
> share types and data structures with the tool itself.  And it also means
> that someone could download the plugin without installing LLVM, as a
> standalone tool, greatly reducing the barrier to entry for people wanting
> to try out the tool.
>
> Here's a quick mockup of what my ideal UI would look like and what I have
> in mind: http://imgur.com/a/p3XBv
>
> But again, it's hard to maintain this kind of thing if the VS plugin has
> to rely on an external tool to do the formatting, since it would have to
> know about every possible set of options for every version as the software
> improves.  So in order to do this this way, we'd need to probably build
> clang-format and/or clang-tidy as a DLL and bundle them with the plugin,
> which could link against it.
>
> Not really asking anyone else to do the work so much as I am asking if
> people think this would be cool and/or something they'd like to see.
> Personally I think it would be a great way to get clang-format and
> clang-tidy onto more peoples' systems, particularly those people who are
> not currently using clang on Windows, since this would be standalone and
> work out of the box while providing a familiar user interface to what
> people are used to.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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