[CMake] AStyle or similar code beautifier

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2014-01-31 02:01, Rob McDonald wrote:
> I'm interested in adding a code beautifier to my project.  I'm looking at
> AStyle, but am open to others.
>
> Implementing a FindAStyle.cmake is pretty trivial.  Likewise, implementing
> custom targets is pretty straightforward in the simple case.
>
> However, I thought there might be some canonical/idiomatic examples of this
> sort of thing.  Any pointers to projects that do this particularly well?
>   Are there any other code beautifiers that already have CMake support?

By "CMake support", do you mean that can beautify CMake script? Or that 
have an existing find module? (For a program like this I'm not sure I'd 
bother with a find module; often, find_program is all you really need.)

As far as recommended C/C++ beautifiers, these days you might want to 
look at clang-format... parsing C++ is getting harder and harder with 
C++11 and later; as such it stands to reason that a tool that is backed 
by a well maintained, full-blown C++ parser is likely to be beneficial.

I do use astyle for some of my own projects, but I've found that I have 
to do a non-trivial amount of additional pre- and post-processing to get 
good results.

-- 
Matthew