On ons, 2012-03-07 at 12:31 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I might agree with you if we had more than one checker function, but
> right now we are proposing to implement this for PL/pgsql and only
> PL/pgsql. It seems to me that we can add that when and if a second
> checker function shows up, if it still seems like a good idea.
I had mentioned upthread that I would like to use this for PL/Python.
There are a number of code quality checkers out there for Python. I
currently have 3 hooked into Emacs, and 2 or 3 are typically used in the
builds of projects I'm working on. All of these are shipped separately
from Python.
This leads to the following requirements:
* Multiple checkers per language must be supported. * It must be possible to add checkers to a language after
itis created. For example, a checker could be shipped in an extension. * It's not terribly important
tome to be able to run checkers separately. If I wanted to do that, I would just disable or remove the
checker. * Just to make things interesting, it should be possible to implement checkers for language X in
languageX.
If it would help, given an API (even if only in C at the moment), I
could probably write up one or two checker function prototypes that
could be run against the PL/Python regression test corpus.
