coala 0.3.0 platypus

[Lasse Schuirmann]

Hi everybody!

I’m pleased to announce the third alpha release (platypus!) of the
coala project – because free developer tools matter. It has been a
long time since the last release but it paid off: while until now,
coala was merely a nice little framework with no actual use during
software development, it has matured a lot and gained analysis
functionality for a lot of languages.

Although coala’s primary purpose is to make the creation of analysis
routines easy, we have taken an effort to include functionality of
other open source linters into it. coala can automatically fix the
indentation of your Octave files, sort and correct Python imports or
add the missing dereferenciation operator to your C++ code (greetings
from Clang!) – the list is growing every week. Try running coala with
the -A argument to see what we’ve got!

We also took an effort to round up our general features: you can now
easily ignore certain files or regions within them – with actually
readable code:

# Start ignoring PyImportSortBear, because those imports rely on sys.path
sys.path.insert(0, ".")
from somewhere import something
from somewhere.else import something
# Stop ignoring

We have also added the opportunity to automatically apply patches
delivered from specific bears – if you want to let coala clean your
whole codebase without having to acknowledge each patch on its own.

Want to know more? Visit http://coala-analyzer.org/ and most
importantly drop us a note on our Gitter channel at
https://gitter.im/coala-analyzer/coala.

Want to help? Visit us on our Gitter channel as well! It’s dead easy
to integrate a new linter with coala and if you want to write own
analysis routines (e.g. for a thesis) without having to care about the
other stuff you’ve come to the right place.

Many thanks go especially to Mischa Krüger, Abdeali Kothari and Fabian
Neuschmidt for helping me driving this freetime project forward!

Cheers,

Lasse

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