[ITA] ctags

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-06-06 12:31, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 2024-06-06 02:32, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 2024-06-05 12:48, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 12/08/2016 20:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Aug 12 11:57, Warren Young wrote:
>>>>> On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen
>>>>>> Cool!  If you want to take over ctags and test universal ctags for
>>>>>> Cygwin, feel free if Warren agrees.
>> I'm interested in doing ITA on ctags as gvim-X user to get onto u-ctags!
>>
>>> Frank,
>>> It looks like we never got a universal-ctags package, so I'm not sure what 
>>> the status of exuberant-ctags maintainer-ship is...
>>
>> Frank was a contributor to u-ctags ~2015 but seemed mainly for Windows and 
>> Notepad++ plug in development.
> 
> I would like to adopt ctags and update it to successor universal-ctags.
> 
> Successful package build with a couple of failed tests with known causes:
> 
>      https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=ctags
> 
> log at:
> 
>      https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/9399504588
> 
> cygport attached and at:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/ctags/tree/ctags.cygport?h=playground

Packaged universal-ctags 6.1 performance was:

	Time	tags	package
	 6s	 8MB	ctags source tree including multi-language test examples
	12s	22MB	newlib-cygwin source tree

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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