[cfe-dev] clang-tidy loading more checkers from an external library/plugin?

[Sergio Martins via cfe-dev]

On 2017-08-10 10:52, Nikolai Kosjar wrote:
> There is clang-tidy, which is nice and cool. Now, there is also clazy
> 
> https://github.com/KDE/clazy
> 
> , which includes great checks for Qt code and is implemented as a
> clang plugin (and also as a standalone tool).
> 
> Since clazy is a clang plugin, can clang-tidy use that so that
> diagnostics/fixits generated by the clazy plugin will be emitted
> through clang-tidy? Having that, only one tool needs to be run :)
> 
> If not, what would be needed to make this work?
> 
> This is https://bugs.llvm.org//show_bug.cgi?id=32739 .

Thanks for bringing this up in the ML Nikolai.

Sooner or later this will have to happen, as the current architecture 
doesn't scale with N vendors.
Doesn't make sense for me to get google checks (or other vendor) when 
cloning tidy.




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