So I think this is a good idea. I think it'd be even better if it it helped standardize things outside of the LSP users area too, namely I'm thinking about tools like CodeClimate that require a specific output format, etc.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 5:33 PM Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > As the dev manager for the Python extension for VS Code, one of the things > my team supports is linter support. When someone comes and asks us to > support a linter we have to consider a couple of things: > > 1. Is the linter popular enough to warrant the overhead of adding support? > 2. How old/stable is the linter's stdout output for parsing? > 3. Has anyone already written the regex to parse the output? 😉 > > And I think every other editor out there that supports Python linters go > through the same thing in some form or another. I would like to do away > with having to make these calls. ☺ > > Would there be interest from the PyCQA to work towards a programmatic API > in Python that linters could implement which editors like VS Code could use > so that supporting a linter takes as little effort as possible? It could > even potentially be registered as an entry point, making linter discovery > automatic for editors. Even bigger thinking is getting this all behind a > united project which supports LSP (language server protocol), so editors > can just plug that project in and get Python linter support for free. > > For you linter maintainers, the wins that come to mind for me is getting > into editors more easily and making sure we don't mess it up. 😁 I wouldn't > have to turn people down for supporting a linter ever again and you all > wouldn't have to worry about me and my team botching our support somehow > because we messed up our regex in parsing your output. > > I started this discussion with other editor/IDE maintainers at > https://discuss.python.org/t/any-interest-in-working-out-a-standard-api-for-calling-linters/6083/. > I have a draft of an API at > https://discuss.python.org/t/any-interest-in-working-out-a-standard-api-for-calling-linters/6083/14 > to help make this more concrete idea to talk about. > > If this sounds like an idea this group could support, I would be up for > writing a PEP and obviously supporting this in the Python extension for VS > Code. > _______________________________________________ > code-quality mailing list -- code-quality@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to code-quality-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/code-quality.python.org/ > Member address: graffatcolmin...@gmail.com >
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