[Ctags-announce] Ctags-5.4 released

[Darren H. <dhi...@us...>]

Ctags-5.4 has been released.

This release includes the following improvements:

    Adds support for PL/SQL and Vera languages.
    Adds ability to report declared argument list for C/C++/Java functions.
    Improves support for Pascal, Perl, and Tcl.
    Improves interface of readtags library.

Here is the change log:

ctags-5.4 (Thu Oct 17 2002)
* Improved ability for tagsOpen() in readtags library to report failure to
  open tag file, adding new fields to tagFileInfo structure.
* Improved Cobol support to include data, files, groups, and sections [Cobol].
* Added '$' a valid character for C identifier [VMS].
* Added support for recording routine argument declarations for C-like
  languages. See the --fields option and man page section TAG FILE FORMAT for
  more information [C, C++, Java].
* Added class and method support to TCL parser [TCL].
* Added support for PL/SQL language.
* Added support for Vera language, inspired by Dave Eggum [Vera].
* Fixed problem terminating Perl POD block [Perl, Bug #612621].
* Fixed problem re whitespace preceding subprogram name [Pascal, Bug #612019].
* Fixed problem with leading spaces before instruction [TCL, Bug #615928].
* Fixed problem with double precision functions [Fortran, Bug #620288].
* Fixed inverted test causing TMPDIR to be used for temporary files when
  ctags is setuid instead of when not setuid [Bug #623713].

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Darren Hiebert <dhi...@us...>
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