Re: etags name collision.

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:38:38 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 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.

That's okay: people are free to use the other variants of ctags.  It's
the same situation as with movemail.