[cfe-commits] [cfe-dev] Announcing an official home for tools built on the Clang platform, as part of the Clang project

[David Blaikie]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com> wrote:
> Can you call the tool 'template-tool' and 'TemplateTool'?

(minor bikeshed, perhaps) - "template tool" sounds like it's a tool
for doing something to templates. Perhaps "tool template" or "tool
skeleton" (I would think "example" would be less ambiguous - but
examples tend to actually do something, so I can see why that might
not be preferred)

[Rather reminiscent of the "template class" language in C++98 that was
corrected to "class template"]

> Can you add some boring printing to stdout and then write a boiler plate
> test so that we ensure the template keeps running (in addition to building)?
>
> Finally, can you update the README to mention this template? Maybe in a
> separate change update the HTML docs too?
>
> Thanks for working on this!
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> [ Resending to cfe-commits because apparently I'm still asleep ]
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2012, at 12:58 AM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> As you may have noticed with various email and commits going about
>> recently, we're opening up an official home and structure for developing
>> developer-facing tools as part of the Clang project.
>>
>> This is intended to be a place where the community can develop refactoring
>> tools, analysis tools, and other code-oriented, Clang-based tools that make
>> writing C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ code easy and fun.
>>
>> I've started seeding documentation about this, currently oriented mostly
>> at fellow tool developers. As we build a collection of tools, we'll be
>> working on better user-facing documentation and packaging, but the immediate
>> pressing need is to get a good place to collaborate on these tools together,
>> and start building awesome new things.
>>
>> Documentation: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangTools.html
>> Repository: http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/clang-tools-extra/trunk
>> Git mirror: http://llvm.org/git/clang-tools-extra.git
>> Getting started: http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
>>
>> I've added one of the tools that we built here at Google when initially
>> developing this framework as an example of how tools in this tree should be
>> structured. It's not the best tool, but it is simple and a good starting
>> point. The build systems (both Makefiles and CMake) have been updated so
>> that the extra repository should just work when dropped in the right place.
>>
>> We're hoping to get several more tools that have already started to be
>> developed by the community moved into a new home here. However, we're still
>> ironing out the exact criteria for accepting tools into the Clang project. I
>> want to emphasize -- this separate repository is a technical division to
>> enable thinner checkouts of Clang when that is useful. This is not a new or
>> separate project, it is very much part of the Clang project and community,
>> and is being run by the same community. =]
>>
>>
>> Here's a patch that implements a "skeleton" refactoring tool; i.e, a
>> starting point for the development of other tools.
>> It contains all the boilerplate stuff needed to get a tool up and running,
>> missing only the AST matchers to find the things to refactor, and the code
>> to actually change the code.
>>
>> Works with this morning's TOT.
>>
>>
>> -- Marshall
>>
>> Marshall Clow     Idio Software   <mailto:mclow.lists at gmail.com>
>>
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>>
>>
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