[Ctags-devel] Darren resurfaces: dctags desirable?

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

Developers,

I am trying to update the maintainer.mak makefile for subversion and  
other related needs to make it less dependent upon my personal  
development quirks. I wanted to do this prior to our upcoming release  
of ctags-5.7 at the end of this month (yes I was listening and this  
is my response).

Presently, the default target of this makefile is "dctags", which is  
a version of ctags compiled up with a number of things in place for  
development support. In order to allow building of both dctags and  
ctags (optimized) in the same directory, I compiled the object files  
for dctags with the extension ".od" in order to allow them to coexist  
with the ".o" files for ctags.

I generally did my development with dctags and performance testing  
with ctags.

Is dctags appreciated (understood) by the developers?

Here are the special features supported by dctags:

Accepts the -D option, which allows setting of debug bits which  
control output from various parsing stages (good for tracing where  
something goes wrong with non-regex parsers).
Enables assert calls.
Uses the internal sort algorithm.
Built with -g.

Or would you rather see this done differently?

Darren

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Darren Hiebert
http://darrenhiebert.com