From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
To: berek@usa.net
Cc: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: RE: replace (plain text)
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 22:54:00 -0000
Message-id: <994225972.6132.3.camel@ghostwheel.cygnus.com>
References: <NFBBLPGOFICNAFDHEABHCEEKCDAA.berek@usa.net>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00012.html

Berek,
    I know that since I work at Red Hat my comments on this will be
    quite suspect, however, I felt that since I've used SN on occasion
    that I should at least comment here.  SN has successfully parsed and
    xref'd the code to gcc, libstdc++ and many of the other programs
    that I work on here.  To be honest, I haven't tried this out much
    lately, but 3-6 mos ago when I last used the program it worked fine
    as an analysis tool.

    As a developer I'm sure that you only accept clear bug reports so
    that you can fix the problems.  The SN team I'm sure would
    appreciate them as well.  If you could provide code snippets that
    won't xref then they could verify the bugs and make sure that they
    work in the newer versions of the program.

    Now, as far as bug reports against old versions of the software,
    likely they'll be verified that they work in the new program and
    that you'll be suggested to upgrade to the newest version available
    from sources.  Have you tried doing this and does it work for you?

-eric

On 03 Jul 2001 21:37:49 -0400, Berek Half-hand wrote:
> Mo, just started work at Unisphere Networks in Westford Mass. Code base at
> old place of work was all C++. Lots of parser and xref problems; you
> probably remember some of my email. New job all JAVA. Dbimp croaks, can't
> build xref, etc. My experience with SN is that it can't parse or build
> xref's for anything but the simplest of standard C code bases. It doesn't
> parse C++ or Java in any of the last three places I've worked at. And no, I
> can't let you have any of the code bases (they don't belong to me). No, I
> can't afford to pay Redstone to fix these problems (I paid $500 for SN 4.5.1
> one month before it went public domain, and I sort of figured bug fixing and
> maintenance were part of what I paid for). No, I can't fix these problems
> myself; I spend all of my time (50-60 hrs/week) bringing home a paycheck.
> 
> So...instead of talking about code base search and replace, why doesn't
> someone at RedHat fix some of these serious problems? I haven't been able to
> get an xref of any code base in any language (except a simple std C grep I
> wrote years ago) for over three years. Pardon my frustration, but I really
> wish I had my money back. Any chance of that?
> 

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