Re: [Ctags-devel] ctags 5.7 in June?

[Elliott H. <en...@je...>]

On 2007-06-05, at 19:51, David Fishburn wrote:
>> i don't have an opinion on whether the next ctags should be
>> 5.6.1 or 5.7, but i do think it would be cool to get another
>> release out.
>
>
> If this is the first release since the new maintainers have joined  
> the ranks
> I think it should be a 5.7 release.

yes, it is. i can't honestly remember what i meant by that sentence;  
i definitely think there are enough useful changes since 5.6 to  
warrant a 5.7 release. perhaps i was thinking "i know we've all got  
one last bug we'd like to fix before 5.7, but i think it's important  
that we actually get something out of the door". as i said, i'd like  
to get a VHDL parser in (we have two submissions, but they require  
some work), i'd like to see Andrew Ruder's Objective C support, and  
i'd like to try using his parser changes to let us generate better  
tags for bison(1) .y and flex(1) .l files' embedded C, i'd like to  
fix our last few leaks, i'd like to, well, you get the idea.

more than anything, i'd like to get something out of the door.

> I haven't done much with the source since my initial flurry of  
> changes but I
> use these versions daily.

i meant to say that, actually: i've been using svn ctags on some of  
my machines all the time, and lately on all of my machines. i've  
encouraged people i know to do the same. we still pass our tests.  
i've built and briefly tested on Cygwin, Linux, Mac OS, Mingw, and  
Solaris. (with only one known problem: on Cgywin the use of non-ASCII  
characters in a character class in the PHP parser causes warnings  
from regcomp(3).)

> I am eager for a release.

i bet the users, who probably aren't running from svn, are even more  
eager!

  --elliott