On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Claudiu Popa pcmanticore@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
For quite some time, since the very first 'Forget the past' commit I have access to, pylint had the ability of providing additional reports, such as Global evaluation, Messages by category, Statistics by type etc. For those of you who are unfamiliar with them, they look like this http://paste.openstack.org/show/421040/ pylint provides an easy way to disable them, by using the --reports flag, as in `--reports=y|n`.
After using pylint for some time, they're started to feel useless for me and I'm always disabling them when running pylint.
Likewise. They are always the first thing I disable when setting up a pylint.rc file, and I am perpetually annoyed when I forget to include "-r n" when pylinting a one-off script via terminal.
They don't provide that much value, except maybe scaring new users with all sorts of numbers, percentages and negative scores (yes, the default formula allows the global evaluation score to become negative).
For pylint users, what do you think about the removal of these reports from pylint?
Yes please. Or at least make it default to disabled instead of enabled.
Would it cause problems for you?
I guess removing the command-line option could break some build scripts, but the fix would be trivial and removing it would still definitely be a net win for me.
Are these reports in any sense useful for you?
No. If I want an overview of or historical trends for pylint errors for a nontrivial project, I use Jenkins' Violations plugin, which doesn't rely on pylint's --report.
Cheers, Chris -- http://chrisrebert.com