Re: Up for adoption: ctags and expat

[Frank Fesevur <ffes@users.sourceforge.net>]

2016-08-12 12:19 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen:
> On Aug 12 11:01, Frank Fesevur wrote:
>> Universal ctags is the continuation of exuberant ctags. We have tried
>> to convince Darren Hiebert (the original author of exuberant) to team
>> up so we could keep the name. But that didn't work out, so we had to
>> fork and came up with the name universal.
>
> Pity.

Absolutely.

>> I would say, make the switch to universal. I am willing to maintain
>> that package. Question is how to update a package without official
>> releases. And it hasn't been included in any major distro AFAIK.
>
> You could start with a test build and set the version numbers in the
> setup.hint file explicitely.  If it works out fine, you only have to
> keep up with the prev/curr markers as long as "prev" is the exuberant
> package.  Question is, *are* there any version numbers yet?  If not,
> you could use git commit IDs for the time being.

There is no version number yet. The expectation is it will become 6.0
so something like 5.9-date-shorthash could a temporary version number
for a test release. The compile date and hash are shown when "ctags
--version" is invoked.

I just tried and the basic compilation of the current master branch works.

Regards,
Frank

BTW. Did you know that a coworker of you is the lead developer of
universal ctags? https://github.com/masatake