[ARROW-745] [C++] Allow use of system cpplint

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16361
• Assignee: Phillip Cloud
• Reporter: Phillip Cloud
• Created: 31/Mar/17 15:03
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:10
• Resolved: 01/Apr/17 17:18

Description

There's a fork of cpplint that works with all the pythons. It'd be swell if we could detect if a user has it installed and use that, falling back on the one that we currently include.

https://github.com/cpplint/cpplint