Re: etags name collision.

[Dmitry Gutov]

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.