I think that what lukas wanted to say is that it is difficult to  
produce good tools, to maintain
them over a long period of time and that it is often more interesting  
to stack up
effort to make sure that at the end we get something.
This is why having more rules under SmallLint is interesting.

Now why should we use Sawlint when we have smallLint. What is your  
selling arg?
Because so far this is not clear.

Stef

On May 26, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Tobias Pape wrote:

> Hello Sophie,
>
> Am 2008-05-25 um 16:54 schrieb itsme213:
>
>>
>> "Tobias Pape" <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote in message
>> news:937EDCAE-2C7E-42B9-90CD-CDDFA4BB31D3 at gmx.de...
>>>
>>> Actually, we
>>> believe that it is a great programming aid facility for a developer.
>>> But using it showed
>>> that there are several problems.
>>>    One example would be the UI. What we wanted to say is that using
>>> the supplied Tool
>>> window can be very confusing.
>>
>> I discovered Lukas' tool set (not just SmallLint, but also the scoped
>> environment browser, AST-based search, replace, re-factor, etc.)  
>> recently.
>> It is such a *huge* improvement, that I would urge you to  
>> contribute towards
>> improving that stream rather than fork a different one.
>
> I want to place an emphasis on the fact that SwaLint is no fork off  
> SmallLint.
> Its architectural codebase is not based on it in any way.
>   Moreover, SwaLint is capable of using every test provided by  
> SmallLint,
> thus, I hope SwaLint will also benefit from SmallLint improvements.
>   For the environments i wanted to say that the notion of scoping is  
> slightly
> different in SwaLint.
>   And, well, some plug-ins in SwaLint are using AST-based searches  
> as well.
>
> To share my Personal opinion, I don’t think it is necessary to  
> incorporate refac-
> toring or any other code-changing into code critics tools. I  
> appreciate the fact
> that SmallLint is capable of it, but for SwaLint we’d like to follow  
> the “do one thing
> and do it right” approach as best we are able to.
>
> Have a nice week.
> So long,
> 	-Tobias
>
>