Re: Adding Flycheck to NonGNU ELPA

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 22/02/2024 12:14, Steve Purcell wrote:
> > On 22 Feb 2024, at 03:16, Dmitry Gutov<dmitry@gutov.dev>  wrote:
> >
> > flymake-easy has another problem: IIUC it hasn't been updated for 10 years, and 
> > as such only uses the obsolete Flymake protocol (one we keep in flymake-proc.el 
> > for compatibility). It also employs defadvice.
>
> The defadvice issue is easily fixed, but in general I can’t tell if the package 
> is defunct or would still be useful for people if it had a refresh. I suspect 
> the latter.

I think there is demand for it, but code-wise, it might need a full rewrite.

It also might make sense to contribute the improved helper to flymake.el 
directly, rather than have it as an external package - then the built-in 
modes could also use it.

Because what I have to do at the moment, is copy ruby-flymake--helper 
with minor variations to use for each backend, and that's not ideal.

Meanwhile the users of flymake-easy who target older versions of Flymake 
(including the current release) could continue to use the existing 
version, since the obsolete API is still supported (I think), just not 
quite recommended.