2016-08-12 12:19 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen: > On Aug 12 11:01, Frank Fesevur wrote: >> Universal ctags is the continuation of exuberant ctags. We have tried >> to convince Darren Hiebert (the original author of exuberant) to team >> up so we could keep the name. But that didn't work out, so we had to >> fork and came up with the name universal. > > Pity.
Absolutely. >> I would say, make the switch to universal. I am willing to maintain >> that package. Question is how to update a package without official >> releases. And it hasn't been included in any major distro AFAIK. > > You could start with a test build and set the version numbers in the > setup.hint file explicitely. If it works out fine, you only have to > keep up with the prev/curr markers as long as "prev" is the exuberant > package. Question is, *are* there any version numbers yet? If not, > you could use git commit IDs for the time being. There is no version number yet. The expectation is it will become 6.0 so something like 5.9-date-shorthash could a temporary version number for a test release. The compile date and hash are shown when "ctags --version" is invoked. I just tried and the basic compilation of the current master branch works. Regards, Frank BTW. Did you know that a coworker of you is the lead developer of universal ctags? https://github.com/masatake