It's included in the 'chef development kit' now so almost everyone using chef has it. So at least as popular as the puppet linter ;-)

The wait list for merging in any lint change is very long right now (Some stuff has been waiting for months).

ArcanistMergeConflictLinter does 99% of the job and it is language agnostic. GrepLinter sounds like a very handy tool, IMO.

In the general case, there are approximately one hundred trillion PHP files out there which do this:

I merged T7037 and T6908 here because they both deal (approximately) with templating .arclint files, and we're definitely not doing the magic approaches in T6908 where some linters get to ignore global excludes.

Let me update the description on this ticket to provide more context, I filed it real quick so that I wouldn't forget about it.

In T7412#99096, @epriestley wrote:

I also think it would probably be reasonable to do this:

• If a configuration file like .arclint is not executable, read the file content to load configuration.
• If a configuration file like .arclint is executable, execute it. Read stdout to load configuration.

.arclint is very powerful already, with include-exclude regexps; What's the use-case for having several?

I also think it would probably be reasonable to do this:

I generally don't think we should support this, and installs which have complex .arclint requirements should instead write a script which builds .arclint for them. If you want 5 files with a bunch of variables in them: write bin/rebuild-lint.py or whatever, have it merge the files and do variable replacement, and dump it to .arclint. This script is probably 10 lines long and can do exactly what your environment requires.

Patch is currently here - we needed this in production so we wrote it and then looked at the contribution guide later.

See T5222 for a related pylint discussion

... or kicked out in favor of flake8, which is modernized, and runs all(?) other python linters available.

OK, so I have a couple of thoughts:

In T7170#95394, @joshuaspence wrote:

Does the ArcanistPhpcsLinterTestCase::testLinter test execute successfully?

Does the ArcanistPhpcsLinterTestCase::testLinter test execute successfully?