Using clippy is not as straightforward as you put it because clippy and the latest nightly often are broken together. There would be much less hassle if it was a stable crate. Also no worries of backwards compatibility between stable/nightly.
- rg
The plan for "stable" clippy is to bundle it with releases, precompiled. It will still use the internal APIs, but from a user's perspective they just have to `rustup component add clippy` and it will magically work.
Whoa, that's the first I've heard about this. Very exciting plans!
We've got a good idea of how it will happen, but the infra stuff has to happen first -- nobody wants to complicate the existing infra if it's going to go away.
I don't have a clear timeline on that. A few months I guess.
On clippy's side we don't need many changes to make this work.