compatible uncrustify version

[dhalbert]

Currently uncrustify 0.71 or 0.72 is needed to match the settings in tools/uncrustify.cfg. @dlech kindly included a compatible version in the pybricks PPA. Later versions are not compatible

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 to work out what changes in build procedure are needed to build CircuitPython. We run uncrustify as part of pre-commit. However, the standard uncrustify in the 24.04 packages is a lot newer and therefore incompatible, and the pybricks PPA does not (yet) have a build for 24.04.

I could build it myself, and even publish it somewhere for our users. But @dlech, are you planning to add 24.04 (Noble) to pybricks? We'd be grateful. Or does anyone else have a convenient package archive for this. Thanks.

Some related discussion here: #9980

[dhalbert]

I was able to download a .deb that intalled and ran from https://launchpad.net/~pybricks/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages. Expand the Focal or Bionic download for uncrustify and there will be a list of files.

[dlech]

Instead of using a PPA going forward (would required manual configuration to force downgrade via apt pinning and only works with Ubuntu), I liked the suggestion of switching to a Python package. Would that work for you?

#9980 (comment)

[dhalbert]

That would be great, thanks. We have a requirements-dev.txt and would just add it to that.

[dlech]

Hi @dhalbert, I just published the package. So you can add micropython-uncrustify to your requirements-dev.txt now.

You can also check that it is working like this:

pipx run --spec micropython-uncrustify uncrustify --version

[dhalbert]

@dlech Thank you!