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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:53:59 +0100 (CET)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>,  svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org,  ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r459751 - in head/lang: . solidity solidity/files
Message-ID:  <alpine.LSU.2.21.1801261051280.3464@anthias.pfeifer.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180123144743.scc42sitwjhvxspv@aragorn.in.absolight.net>
References:  <201801231358.w0NDwMa8074241@repo.freebsd.org> <20180123140938.GA73049@FreeBSD.org> <57ffd7bd-6a3f-b315-b582-17d9dccee5a8@FreeBSD.org> <20180123144743.scc42sitwjhvxspv@aragorn.in.absolight.net>

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On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> portlint is a third party static lint tool, it does not understand what
> you does, it just tells you when it is very very bad (when it does not
> get it wrong.)

This feels like a (way) too negative assessment of portlint.  It
does catch a large number of issues, is maintained very actively,
and by one of us, not a third party.

Without portlint the Ports Collection would be significantly worse
off, and if anything it would be good to see it used more widely.

Gerald




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