Can we steal sublime linter's plugins?

justinabrahms commented 10 years ago

free work!

arpit1997 commented 8 years ago

@justinabrahms For the love of open source yeah we can always use these things. Here is an awesome project The SublimeLinter Here you can see It is a MIT license product so other than commercial just for open source it is available. :smile_cat: :aerial_tramway:

danpalmer commented 8 years ago

@arpit1997 what do you think would be gained from using SublimeLinter's plugins? It would be great to get a more solid plan for how we can use them.

Off the top of my head, the pros of this are:

Lots of available plugins written to one consistent API that we could implement.
Very active ecosystem developing new plugins.
Consistent linting between Sublime Text and CI/environment where Imhotep is running.

But the cons:

Distributed through PackageControl, not PyPI+PIP.
Sublime Linter plugins tend to not bundle or depend on their dependencies (i.e. sublimelinter-flake8 doesn't depend on flake8, it just tells you that you need to install it in the readme).
New configuration format that is designed for a text editor, not for a generic linter.
Only compatible with Sublime Text's bundled Python install.

While it would be nice to use them, I'm not sure these are issues we can work around easily, and after a certain amount of effort we might as well just add more linter support ourselves, which is relatively easy to do (see the readme for more details).

What are your thoughts? Am I misunderstanding how SublimeLinter plugins work?

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