[Qgis-developer] QGIS and Coverity scans

[Nathan Woodrow]

> I am curious about Coverity. AFAIK, the static analyzer is not open
source,
> right ? So this works as long as they offer if freely for open source
> projects.

>> Right.  It's propietary.  And IMHO it's also a heavy depencency

Not sure I find that to be much of a issue. Use what ever works, it seems
to be free for us at the moment and is improving our code a lot, if there
is a open version that works as well that is fine but it's definitely not
something that I personally worry about.  I also wouldn't really call it a
dependency when we are not forced or forcing anyone else to use it.

- Nathan

On Wed Feb 11 2015 at 11:19:09 PM Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> Hi Hugo,
>
> On Wed, 11. Feb 2015 at 14:04:56 +0100, Hugo Mercier wrote:
> > I am curious about Coverity. AFAIK, the static analyzer is not open
> source,
> > right ? So this works as long as they offer if freely for open source
> > projects.
>
> Right.  It's propietary.  And IMHO it's also a heavy depencency (IIRC the
> download of the tool needed to collect the build logs was 150MB).
>
> > What would be very good is to call static analyzers during the
> build/testing
> > process (as an option). Has somebody experiences with such things ? CLang
> > static analyzer ?
>
> We have used cppcheck - but not integrated into the build process.
> There are also some good options for gcc (eg. -Weffc++).
>
> I didn't know clang's scan-build[1] before Even Rouault mentioned it on
> #qgis.
> Maybe we could use that with travis.  But it's not packaged in ubuntu and
> apparently you have to build clang to get it.
>
>
> Jürgen
>
> [1] http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/
>
>
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