[cfe-dev] On Organization/Placement of Tools for Clang-Tidy

Jonas Toth via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Feb 21 05:29:05 PST 2019


See the thread "[cfe-dev] Separating clang-tools-extra from clang in
LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS" as well.

What tool is it and how does it help? Did you notice the "[cfe-dev]
[RFC] Easier source-to-source transformations with clang tooling" thread
here proposing a better matching&transforming API?

Am 21.02.19 um 02:14 schrieb Shyan Akmal via cfe-dev:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working with a few other developers on creating a clang tool. This
> tool is meant to help out with the development of clang-tidy checks
> (specifically to help with writing matchers). 
>
> Currently, the tool is contained as a single folder within the
> /clang/tools/extra/ directory. However, we realized that several other
> tools seem to be located outside of clang extra, in /clang/lib/ or
> /clang/lib/tooling/.
>
> Given this, we had a quick question: should we move our tool to
> /clang/lib/, keep it in /clang/tools/extra/, or place it somewhere
> else? Or, does the placement not matter that much? 
>
> Sincerely,
> Shyan
>
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