Up for adoption: ctags and expat
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 12 08:12:00 GMT 2016
On Aug 11 17:49, Warren Young wrote:
> I’m the current maintainer of these two packages. As it happens,
> I have never seriously used either under Cygwin. I only adopted
> ctags because it was abandoned in 2003 and was in danger of being
> removed from the distribution after repeated attempts to contact its
> maintainer in 2005 failed. Since I do use ctags on other platforms,
> I decided that I was at least in a position to keep it in Cygwin,
> so I adopted it. The situation was less drastic with expat: I simply
> took over the package’s maintenance when Brian Dessent stepped down
> in 2008.
>
> The time has come for someone else to maintain these packages.
>
> But not just anyone. I do not want to drop another twig onto the
> back of someone who’s already carrying a lot for the Cygwin project.
> I’d prefer that these packages to go to someone who’s been looking
> to jump into Cygwin package maintainership, and has just been waiting
> for an excuse.
>
> These two are a mixed bag when it comes to ease of maintainership,
> each for very different reasons.
>
> The easy part with ctags is that there hasn’t been an upstream
> release since 2009, and there is no reason to expect that there will
> be another. The hard part is that the shipped Makefile doesn’t
> understand how to do out-of-tree builds, something Cygport expects
> to be able to do, so I had to write a custom build script to produce
> the current packages, which might have to be adjusted by the next
> maintainer of this package, if a new version comes out with the same
> primitive build system.
Given the obvious lack of upstream development, did anybody try
to replace exuberant ctags with universal ctags?
https://ctags.io/
I noticed that our co-maintainer Frank Fesevur is involved in this
project. Frank, any insight?
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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