What about the tools not reading from stdin?

[KabbAmine]

I would like to add many linters that unfortunately do not read from stdin (csslint, sass-lint, vint...). Is there any plans or strategy to handle those kind of tools in ale?

In fact, I can easily add them to validator but I prefer to use a solution full vimscript as your plugin.

[w0rp]

The best tools accept stdin input. For the tools that don't there is a Bash wrapper script which writes the output to a temporary file which can be used. Have a look at the Haskell GHC linter. That one uses the wrapper script at the moment.

[KabbAmine]

The wrapper works as expected but it is not cross-platform. Anyway, I'll add some linters using the script meanwhile a better approach.

[w0rp]

I might see if I can get a wrapper script written for Windows using Batch hacks, and then I would be able to support all of Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. That would make me happy enough.

[KabbAmine]

That would make everyone happy

[mosheavni]

The best tools accept stdin input. For the tools that don't there is a Bash wrapper script which writes the output to a temporary file which can be used. Have a look at the Haskell GHC linter. That one uses the wrapper script at the moment.

How can I find this wrapper script?
Thanks :)