Re: [Ctags-devel] Regarding my absence

[Elias P. <eli...@gm...>]

Maybe the Geany developers would be willing to use ctags as library if it
is maintained again (especially if there will be developer overlap). I
remember backporting their improvements to the Python parser was not
trivial because of the renaming.


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Frank Fesevur
<ff...@us...>wrote:

> 2013/10/23 Masatake YAMATO <ya...@re...>:
> > On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:32:48 +1300, Jan Larres <li...@ma...>
> wrote:
> >> As for the project, I would really recommend moving it to GitHub instead
> >> of staying on SourceForge.
> >
> > I'm strong agree with what Jan wrote.
>
> And converting the current svn repo to a git repository is not
> difficult with the "git svn" command. That's how I maintain my local
> changes right now.
>
> Just found out that it is not possible to register a new github user
> named "ctags". Github says it is a reserved word. I have too little
> experience with github to fully understand why and if Darren can claim
> the name.
>
> But remember that switching technology doesn't solve problems like
> people's time schedule and priorities in life.
>
> > During your absence, I wrote some patches for a tree at github:
> >
> >         https://github.com/fishman/ctags
> >
> > (I've cc'd this mail to Reza Jelveh, the maintainer of the tree.)
> >
> > As far as I know, the tree is the most active ctags tree forked from
> > sf.net. I hope both you plan to merge the improvements into one tree.
>
> I think the parsers used by Geany are even better maintained.
> https://github.com/geany/geany/tree/master/tagmanager/ctags
>
> Only special thing the Geany teams seems to do is rename some kind
> names to c-like kind names. Obviously this should not be done
> upstream. But other than that they have much more commits to the
> various parsers and several new parsers.
>
> I agree with you that it would be great if all those changes would be
> combined in one upstream tree.
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
>
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