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Re: Coala – Code Analysis Application

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Post by sils » Wed, Apr 20, 2016, 10:20 PM UTC

xyz198 wrote: post #17

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Thanks, I added a link right on top of http://coala-analyzer.org/ to clarify it a bit. The website isn't particularly good, we're working on a new one which provides lots of cool things and better information, probably implemented by a GSoC student.

Great effort with the project. However, I must say that very critical info for first-time users is still unavailable or very vaguely documented. For example, I still have no clue what sort of analysis can be obtained from this page : https://github.com/coala-analyzer/coala-bears/wiki/Available... . I can see a bunch of Bears but that's your terminology. I would rather prefer a brief summary of the tool's analysis or…

So ATM the only way to get more info about a bear is by querying coala for it: `coala -B -b=AlexBear`

We have a project in planning stage to make a browsable webpage generated from the per bear documentation, we will also look a lot at the configurability and documentation of the individual bears for the next release.

Re: Coala – Code Analysis Application

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Post by sils » Wed, Apr 20, 2016, 10:22 PM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #18

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Oh btw. coala allows automatic fixes for source code, most tools like code climate are usually reporting only and can be more annoying than helpful.

Agreed that such tools can be annoying without the proper configuration. But I also don't really want anything automatically fixing my source code. That's a personal preference though.

coala always leaves you in control, you can tell it to e.g. show a patch before applying. If you explicitly configure it you can set it to automatically apply patches that are coming from certain analysis routines.

Re: Coala – Code Analysis Application

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Post by xyz198 » Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 4:08 PM UTC

sils wrote: post #20

xyz198 wrote: post #17

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Great effort with the project. However, I must say that very critical info for first-time users is still unavailable or very vaguely documented. For example, I still have no clue what sort of analysis can be obtained from this page : https://github.com/coala-analyzer/coala-bears/wiki/Available... . I can see a bunch of Bears but that's your terminology. I would rather prefer a brief summary of the tool's analysis or…

Hey, upgrading pip should solve your issue. I filed an issue for the missing info at https://github.com/coala-analyzer/website/issues/30 , thank you for your feedback!

Thanks a lot for incorporating the feedback. I have been working on a similar, internal tool within my company and I have realized the hard way how all capabilities can go waste if not communicated correctly to the stakeholders (developers in this case).

I look forward to contributing to coala if I end up incorporating it alongside my (internal) tool and would like an unimplemented functionality. Good luck.