Re: [Lxr-dev] Re: /bin/true as a zombie

[Jason D. S. <js...@de...>]

"Peder O. Klingenberg" wrote:
> 
> Jason Dorje Short <js...@de...> writes:
> 
> > No doubt I'm missing something, but I don't understand why my change was
> > conceptually wrong.  I took each version to be indexed, and traversed
> > the tree for that version.
> 
> But you can't find the versions to be indexed by asking for the
> versions of the root of the tree.  In a CVS tree, each file can have a
> differing number of versions, have completely different tags, etc.

Here is my problem...I didn't realize it was "asking".

> It may of course
> well be that my concepts are different from yours, in which case it's
> a matter of opinion which version (pun intended) to hold as the
> correct one.

My opinion is that it should work for everyone :-)

Obviously, right now things will work for _either_ CVS or static.

> It seems to me that this is an area that needs more customization,
> because we obviously disagree, and I suspect that we both have equally
> valid views.  And as it so happens, we have a configuration variable
> by the name of 'range'.  Would you be happy if --allversions just used
> the range in lxr.conf?

Actually, that's what I thought it *was* doing, which is why I thought
my code was good.

Yes, I would be much happier if that's what happened.  What happens
right now?  Does it index every possible version?

jason