Make pretty doesn't cover files not using nlbuild-autotools

[rwalker-apple]

Problem

Example applications, sample source, etc. are excluded from tree formatting facilities unless they are under the nlbuild-autotools make system.

Proposed Solution

Write an umbrella checker/helper, a la our shellcheck scanner, to help pretty and pretty-check the tree.

[gerickson]

The easiest solve here would be to just add the files that aren't presently covered with:

PRETTY_FILES += <files to cover with 'make pretty' and 'make pretty-check'>

in the appropriate parent makefiles (for example, src/platform/Makefile.am) or to just add a new makefile for this purpose only at src/platform/EFR32/Makefile.am and src/platform/nRF5/Makefile.am.

[rwalker-apple]

that could work, but then we'd keep track of files not covered in those Makefiles somehow?

[gerickson]

that could work, but then we'd keep track of files not covered in those Makefiles somehow?

I think if we want make dist to include those files in an archive distribution, we'd want to do that anyway.

[rwalker-apple]

that could work, but then we'd keep track of files not covered in those Makefiles somehow?

I think if we want make dist to include those files in an archive distribution, we'd want to do that anyway.

Might we prefer that all the code we author in the project to be pretty independent of whether it's part of any archive distribution or external product?

[gerickson]

that could work, but then we'd keep track of files not covered in those Makefiles somehow?

I think if we want make dist to include those files in an archive distribution, we'd want to do that anyway.

Might we prefer that all the code we author in the project to be pretty independent of whether it's part of any archive distribution or external product?

I agree, I think; however, I'm not quite clear how that relates. Can you clarify?

[rwalker-apple]

closing this issue as irrelevant now that we've essentially moved restyled.io, not relying on make pretty