From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 115419 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2016 13:42:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 115397 invoked by uid 89); 12 Aug 2016 13:42:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*F:D*sourceforge.net, H*F:D*users.sourceforge.net, H*RU:esmtpa, Hx-spam-relays-external:esmtpa X-HELO: s216.webhostingserver.nl Received: from s216.webhostingserver.nl (HELO s216.webhostingserver.nl) (141.138.169.216) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:41:50 +0000 Received: from mail-it0-f45.google.com ([209.85.214.45]) by s216.webhostingserver.nl with esmtpa (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1bYCia-002KRQ-7y for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 15:41:48 +0200 Received: by mail-it0-f45.google.com with SMTP id u186so11933410ita.0 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 06:41:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoouttK79qG+tnR+O6+u1NP5931rFjBpsjjl9NAK4MJJpKerCZ1YswenFZnubP+/87B3QCkauzsg6iWvQaVA== X-Received: by 10.36.130.135 with SMTP id t129mr3558880itd.31.1471009306478; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 06:41:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.79.129 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 06:41:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160812101917.dfi7yv3vdfujc3kq@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <8B595AA4-99A0-4497-9D8B-AF27D79B28A0@etr-usa.com> <20160812081156.ea3ylmngpojeub72@calimero.vinschen.de> <20160812101917.dfi7yv3vdfujc3kq@calimero.vinschen.de> From: Frank Fesevur Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:42:00 -0000 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Up for adoption: ctags and expat To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Authenticated-Id: deb43215 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00046.txt.bz2 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