RE: [cdt-dev] Turning off ctags indexer

[Thomas Fletcher <ThomasF@xxxxxxx>]

+1 from me to "turning it off".  I'd rather pour any effort into
improving "our own" technology now that we are sufficiently down
the road to independance.

Thomas

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Schaefer
> Sent: May 22, 2006 1:04 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: [cdt-dev] Turning off ctags indexer
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> Hey gang,
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> I am continuing to feel the affects of trying to replace five 
> people with myself. To help make sure we reach the dates with 
> good quality, I am going to reduce content. Since the PDOM 
> Fast indexer is now pretty fast, I am going to turn off the 
> ctags indexer. I have not had the time to port it over to the 
> PDOM completely. Also looking at the info we get from ctags, 
> I'm not sure how the features that used the index worked well at all.
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> Also, in the future, I can see now how I can get the DOM 
> parser to work like ctags and probably have it produce better 
> results. The ctags indexer was really meant as a stop gap to 
> make sure we could get some index info for large projects in 
> a reasonable time. This may longer be necessary.
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> As always, I'm open to feedback. In this case, however, the 
> ctags indexer will only be brought back if someone steps up 
> to work on it.
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> Cheers,
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> Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
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> Eclipse CDT Project Lead, Tools PMC member
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> http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com
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