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Re: etags name collision.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: etags name collision. |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:07:04 +0300 |
> 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.
- Re: etags name collision., (continued)
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- Re: etags name collision., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2022/04/12
- Re: etags name collision., Ergus, 2022/04/12
- Re: etags name collision., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2022/04/12
- Re: etags name collision., Dmitry Gutov, 2022/04/12
- Re: etags name collision., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2022/04/13
- Re: etags name collision., Stefan Monnier, 2022/04/12
- Re: etags name collision.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: etags name collision., Andreas Schwab, 2022/04/11
Re: etags name collision., Ergus, 2022/04/11
- Re: etags name collision., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/11
- Re: etags name collision., Ergus, 2022/04/11
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- Re: [PATCH] Re: etags name collision., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/11
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- Re: [PATCH] Re: etags name collision., Ulrich Mueller, 2022/04/11