Re: [cdt-dev] Turning off ctags indexer

["Sergey Prigogin" <eclipse.sprigogin@xxxxxxxxx>]

It also makes sense to rename Fast C/C++ Indexer to just C/C++ Indexer
and Full C/C++ Indexer to Legacy C/C++ Indexer, or some other bad name
that would discourage its use.

-sergey

On 5/22/06, Thomas Fletcher <ThomasF@xxxxxxx> wrote:

+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-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [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
>
> 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,
>
> Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
>
> Eclipse CDT Project Lead, Tools PMC member
>
> http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com
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