CLI: there should be a way to add rules

[mahonnaise]

If you run it in a browser, you can just include additional scripts files. Any rules which were added via those scripts are then directly available. This is very cool indeed.

However, there is no such thing for the command line versions. If you, for example, install CSS Lint via npm, then there won't be a way to include additional rules (or whole sets thereof).

Installing Java + Ant and then rebuilding it yourself is needlessly complicated. Besides, I think that this also makes distribution and keeping things up to date very difficult.

What I'd like to see is some way to specify one or more rule include directories.

[nzakas]

Do have a suggestion for how that would work?

[mahonnaise]

Maybe kinda like Java's classpath?

With the JVM, you can specify which directories are searched and in which order.

So, it would be some switch which takes a list of files and directories.

Well, I'm actually kinda unsure right now. I haven't tried it via a Grunt (or Ant or whatever) task yet. If I can add other rules there, it would be good enough for most users, I guess.

[sitedyno]

Maybe a config file would be good for this type of thing? Add a CLI option to specify config file location and expect the config file to hold a json object with a list of directories? You could do per project config files like this I suppose.