[code-quality] Flake8 News

[afayolle]

On 09/07/2013 08:36, Sylvain Thénault wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> On 04 juillet 11:42, Ian Cordasco wrote:
>> First, is there any interest in developing a pylint plugin for Flake8?
>> If so, who's interested in working with me on it. (I doubt we will
>> finish it today, but I'd at least like to start it.)
> On my side, I can't commit to find time to work on this but I would definitly
> like to have pylint integrated there and I'm willing to help anyone working on
> it. That would probably be a good opportunity to find common stuff done in pylint
> and flake8: I'm pretty sure both project may learn from each other on high-level
> stuff such as message control, ast handling, analysis execution... Pylint has been
> there for a while and has imo (truly objectivly, of course ;) neat features on
> that side.
>
> Cheers,

Be aware of the licensing issue, though : depending on the way flake8
works (subprocess or import), the GPL license of Pylint could be an
issue if the flake8 authors want to stick to MIT.

Alexandre