Adding a test with vera++ for Travis CI

[ghost]

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[brarcher]

My understanding is that vera++ helps enforce style guidelines, correct? I like the idea.

Can you help me by providing a description of the different arguments you propose? Are there any other arguments which would help enforce the style that are not being proposed?

[ghost]

Vera++ is a programmable tool for verification, analysis and transformation of
C++ source code.

But it works well for C.

I did not know how to explain the options in the file for Travis CI. I explained the options I use in one of my project:

cmd='vera++ --error'
cmd="$cmd -R F001"# source files should not use the '\r' (CR) character
cmd="$cmd -R F002 -P max-filename-length=40"
cmd="$cmd -R L004 -P max-line-length=90"
cmd="$cmd -R L005 -P max-consecutive-empty-lines=2"
cmd="$cmd -R L006 -P max-file-length=700"
cmd="$cmd -R T001"# one-line comments should not have forced continuation
cmd="$cmd -R T004"# some keywords should be immediately followed by a colon
cmd="$cmd -R T005"# break and continue followed by a semicolon
cmd="$cmd -R T007"# semicolons not isolated by spaces or comments
cmd="$cmd -R T009"# ", " is right and " ," is wrong
cmd="$cmd -R T019"# control structures with complete curly-braced block

That is the documentation for the options: https://bitbucket.org/verateam/vera/wiki/Rules
You can also create your own rule(s): https://bitbucket.org/verateam/vera/wiki/ScriptAPI

[brarcher]

It has been awhile, but when this change was attempted Travis CI could not find the vera++ command:

/home/travis/build.sh: line 45: vera++: command not found

Are you interested in investigating this further? Or, if not, would you like to contribute the C changes you have to Check without the vera++ support?

[mikkoi]

For enforcing a certain style, astyle might be a better alternative.