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by sils 3720 days ago
Thanks, I added a link right on top of http://coala-analyzer.org/ to clarify it a bit. The website isn't particularly good, we're working on a new one which provides lots of cool things and better information, probably implemented by a GSoC student.
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xyz198 3719 days ago
Great effort with the project.

However, I must say that very critical info for first-time users is still unavailable or very vaguely documented. For example, I still have no clue what sort of analysis can be obtained from this page : https://github.com/coala-analyzer/coala-bears/wiki/Available.... I can see a bunch of Bears but that's your terminology. I would rather prefer a brief summary of the tool's analysis or atleast a link to the static analyzer which a specific bear wraps over. For e.g. "AlexBear" - I honestly have no clue what that or 90% of the other bears end up doing with my source code.

You have put so much effort in the implementation, please improve clarity/coverage of documentation.

Also, installation (pip3 install coala-bears) fails on OSX. Any ideas on how to fix that ? Here is the error message : http://pastebin.com/tP3dZsik

Thank you.

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sils 3719 days ago
So ATM the only way to get more info about a bear is by querying coala for it: `coala -B -b=AlexBear`

We have a project in planning stage to make a browsable webpage generated from the per bear documentation, we will also look a lot at the configurability and documentation of the individual bears for the next release.

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sils 3719 days ago
Hey, upgrading pip should solve your issue.

I filed an issue for the missing info at https://github.com/coala-analyzer/website/issues/30 , thank you for your feedback!

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xyz198 3717 days ago
Thanks a lot for incorporating the feedback. I have been working on a similar, internal tool within my company and I have realized the hard way how all capabilities can go waste if not communicated correctly to the stakeholders (developers in this case).

I look forward to contributing to coala if I end up incorporating it alongside my (internal) tool and would like an unimplemented functionality. Good luck.

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