From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-04-09T10:15:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Automated Source Code Analysis for C++ Ruby Projects (free!?!?)

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 09:14 +0900, Thursday wrote:
> It would be nice if Rubyforge or RAA would auto-analyze source code for 
> common errors like memory leaks (unfreed pointers) using tools such as:
> 
> 1. Gimpel pc-lint
> 2. Parasoft c++test
> 
> Since they are static code-analysis tools, they can be automated more 
> easily/safely than say, runtime tools such as valgrind or Glowcode.

Note that anyone who has a license to either product could do this use
anonymous CVS checkouts from RubyForge... they could run a nightly job
or some such.  They'd just need to set up a list of the projects on
RubyForge/RAA that included C code...

Yours,

Tom