[code-quality] Flake8 API

[Ian Cordasco]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Ian Cordasco
<graffatcolmingov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Part of the 2.0 redesign (in my mind) was to open up the avenue of
> having an API as part of Flake8 to allow people to do fun stuff with
> it. Unfortunately it seems we did not open it enough. Take a look at
> this issue on pep8: https://github.com/jcrocholl/pep8/pull/181. It's
> an odd request but it makes some sense to allow people to pass their
> own everything to Flake8 using our tools. I have a few ideas about how
> to make this easier for others to extend, but I'm not sure if they're
> overkill or not.
>
> The first is to have main create a StyleGuide and pass it to a
> function that does the rest of main with the StyleGuide that was
> passed in. This allows people to use `get_style_guide` to retrieve a
> StyleGuide with their own options and do all kinds of wonderful
> (horrible) things to it and then uses it to execute main. The issue
> with this is they could ostensibly remove options or methods that main
> currently relies on (and therefore this other function would rely on).
>
> The second is not much different but would allow main to directly take
> **kwargs and merge those with what we pass to `get_style_guide` (this
> is actually Florent's idea).
>
> The former feels more flexible and yet dangerous, the other seems less
> flexible but almost flexible enough for what seems to be the current
> use case.
>
> Any and all opinions are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
> P.S.
>
> Anyone with Mercurial extension experience, please contact me separately. ;-)

So actually this was wholly unnecessary. The resolution can be found
here: https://github.com/schlamar/flake8-immediate