Ok, so, back to the original question.  When can those of us external to
google expect a code style tool? :-)

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Dean McNamee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> It doesn't need to be a parser, it's just a linter.  You don't really
> need to understand anything about the program to give useful warnings
> about style.  Our biggest style violation is probably trailing
> whitespace, for example.
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > You wrote a c++ parser in python? cooool!  I can't wait to see the
> source.
> >
> > -Benjamin Meyer
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Pam Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Marshall Greenblatt
> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> Sorry to be a pest, but has there been any progress on this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Marshall
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Pam Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Marshall Greenblatt
> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> > Hi Mark/Pam,
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Mark Mentovai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> > wrote:
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >> Great question.  We've been talking about open-sourcing something
> for
> >>>>> >> this, but so far, we don't have anything yet.  We do have
> something we
> >>>>> >> use internally, but someone needs to go through it and clean up a
> few
> >>>>> >> things before releasing it so that it runs well in the wild.  When
> it
> >>>>> >> does materialize, it'll show up on the style guide project
> >>>>> >> (http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/).
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > Do you guys have a timeline in mind of when such a tool might
> become
> >>>>> > available?  If there are potential code licensing/IP issues,
> perhaps it
> >>>>> > could be made available as a web-based service?  For instance,
> something
> >>>>> > like the w3c validator but returning the corrections in either
> >>>>> > human-readable format or a format conducive to automation.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Everybody's generally in support of open-sourcing the tool, and I
> >>>>> don't anticipate any licensing conflicts; it's just a matter of
> >>>>> finding the time to go through it.  For what it's worth, setting it
> up
> >>>>> as a web-based service wouldn't be any faster.  More than days, less
> >>>>> than months, would be my guess.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Pam
> >>>
> >>> A web tool would only delay releasing a real tool.  Just curious how
> >>> is it written?  Using llvm, rpp, or another parser?
> >>
> >> It's in Python.
> >>
> >> - Pam
> >>
> >>>
> >>> -Benjamin Meyer
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>

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