Drop flake8?

[dreispt]

MQT currently uses two tools for linting, flake8 and pylint, and I see people puzzled at why the complexity.
Indeed this is so for historical reasons (pylint was added only later in the game), but at the moment I feel that pylint is capable of doing everything and more that flake8 can.

So I propose to move the existing flake8 checks to pylint checks, and remove the flake8 dependency from MQT.

[pedrobaeza]

If pylint can do everything, why not?

[moylop260]

+1

[elicoidal]

+1

[moylop260]

@dreispt
Do you have a plan of work in this issue?

[dreispt]

@moylop260 I'm sorry but no - in the little time I will have I will give priority to a few new modules I'm in need.

[moylop260]

I got it
Thank you.
I will use the help wanted label.

[pedrobaeza]

As mentioned in #286, this would also allow to ignore non installable modules.

[nhomar]

I was talking with @moylop260 and even pylint team delegate some work to Flake8.

This will be simplified on the move on #500 and future work, can I close this issue?

[moylop260]

The pylint’s maintainer recommend us use both tools:
pylint-dev/pylint#1110 (comment)