From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: etags name collision.
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:52:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220411135259.zqrlngj6lmpgbsni@Ergus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff26a89d-fb3f-cdb2-4187-91989b09f9aa@yandex.ru>
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 04:38:38PM +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>On 11.04.2022 16:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>2) Why do we create an executable with a name that is used by another
>>>very wheel known program.
>>It's the other way around: ctags was a very old Unix program, and
>>Emacs developed a GNU version of that program. Universal ctags came
>>much later. So you should ask them why did they decide to use a name
>>that was already taken.
>>
>
>Even the very old version of ctags that's distributed by most of
>GNU/Linux distributions these days (Ctags 5.9~svn20110310) supports
>more languages than etags. Like ~50% more languages.
>
>So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the our version of ctags was
>never accepted as a true continuation or replacement.
>
>It's not like we're doing a particularly active development of it either.
Do one thing and do it right...
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2022-04-11 12:47 ` etags name collision Ergus
2022-04-11 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 13:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-11 13:52 ` Ergus [this message]
2022-04-11 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 14:25 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 7:16 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-04-12 8:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-04-12 10:48 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 10:51 ` Po Lu
2022-04-12 11:03 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 11:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-12 11:28 ` Po Lu
2022-04-12 13:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-04-12 14:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-12 15:36 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-04-12 17:13 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 13:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-04-12 13:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-04-12 16:40 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 17:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-04-12 17:48 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 19:50 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-04-12 20:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-04-13 5:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-04-12 17:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-11 13:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-04-11 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 13:47 ` Ergus
2022-04-11 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 14:18 ` Ergus
2022-04-11 15:46 ` [PATCH] " Ergus
2022-04-11 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 16:19 ` Ergus
2022-04-11 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 19:19 ` Ergus
2022-04-11 19:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-04-11 19:53 ` Ergus
2022-04-11 21:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-04-11 22:20 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 7:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-04-12 7:34 ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-04-12 10:53 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-12 2:43 ` Po Lu
2022-04-12 5:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-04-12 11:13 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-12 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-12 12:50 ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-04-12 7:16 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-04-12 12:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 16:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-11 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-11 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 19:11 ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-04-12 7:42 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-04-11 18:15 ` Ergus
2022-04-11 23:09 ` Ergus
2022-04-11 14:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-04-11 13:56 ` Kaushal Modi
2022-04-11 14:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-04-12 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-12 7:16 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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