use meld for formatcheck
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Description
As we aim to make output more readable, we want to do the same for the formatchecker. At the moment, we are using diff which may be hard to interpret.
A suggestions is to use meld instead which is a graphical diff visualizer. We can add this to the Makefile so that you have something like mformatcheck which uses meld instead of diff.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in the Makefile and locate the existing formatcheck target and the formatchecker command it runs. Add or verify an mformatcheck target that uses meld instead of diff, then run both targets to confirm the output comparison works.
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- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100