Pylint is recognised by a lot of people as a better python linter than the others, supports parsable output and catches more errors than flake8/pyflakes/pep8.
I'm definitely not an expert of php or this project but I am fairly confident that adding that method will allow us to start using pylint from arcanist rather than the less comprehensive flake8. I don't think it can break any existing functionality to do so.

any news on this? someone having the same problem?