Transition to Flycheck

[tonini]

I always just had problems with flymake and most of the time just haven't it enabled.

I think we should consider to switch to Flycheck.

Why?

Because it's just great. Language support is amazing, it's highly maintained and people just use it.

@senny @jone what do you guys think about that?

[senny]

can you prepare a PR for me to check out for a bit? I'm not a big fan of Flymake but it serves the purpose I use it for "ok". If Flycheck delivers the same I'm happy to move over.

[jone]

I've had trouble with flymake and compile-mode; flymake crashes sometimes silently while compiling.
If flycheck does the job and does not crash I'll happily switch 😉

[phgross]

I've had the same problems like @jone describe. So if flycheck would solve this troubles, that would be nice 👍

[tonini]

@jone What's the default source code checker for python these days? Currently we're going with pyflakes and flymake. Maybe going with flake8 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8 would be decent way.

What do you think?

[jone]

I'd go with pyflakes only.

flake8 includes pyflakes but also pep8.
pyflakes only checks for logical errors in the code, but pep8 also checks for the python style guide, which results in a lot more errors.
Although we (at my company) try to apply pep8 to a certain degree it is sometimes impossible and often hard to do so.

Personally I want see pyflakes while coding (as flymake does it with a red background) but I want pep8 errors only on demand (I have other setups for this). I think I would disable it if it would include pep8 because of the code I sometimes work on and because it would be too distracting for me..

[tonini]

@jone So you think we should just setup flycheck with pyflakes and let the rest to the user itself to customize?

[jone]

Yes, that sounds good 👍