Problem installing dependencies: which "linter"?

[TerryCavanagh]

Here's what happens right now when you try to install the required package dependencies for this package:

Same situation with autocomplete-plus.

Not sure if this is something you care about, but it completely gates beginners from using the plugin!

[jeremyfa]

Right, to make it smoother, it would be possible to make the plugin install dependencies automatically (which is done by some other plugins). A good compromise, to prevent from being too intrusive, could be to prompt, once, the user if he wants to install "linter" etc... (autocomplete-plus is already included in atom by default).

[TerryCavanagh]

Automatic dependency installation sounds great to me, if it's possible!

[ruby0x1]

@jeremyfa is there a readme outdated that mentions autocomplete-plus to install? We should revise that!

Also, we could add a linter checkbox which installs the package manually if there's an API endpoint for that, otherwise we could just install the dependency anyway and the checkbox just toggles it's usage by default if necessary.

[jeremyfa]

Yes, installing it automatically and allowing to disable its usage sounds fine to me.