ITP: cscope -- Interactively examine a C program source

Dave And Diane daveanddiane@kringlecottage.com
Sat Oct 20 23:54:00 GMT 2012


Yep. Will do

Cheers
Dave
On 10/20/2012 6:20 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 19 22:37, Dave And Diane wrote:
>> Hi Corinna,
>>
>> mlcscope does provide some differences - it was designed to be
>> multi-lingual rather than assume C style parsing rules and a few
>> menus were different.
>>
>> Unfortunately it never evolved beyond the initial implementation and
>> I doubt that anyone would notice.
>>
>> Normally, yes creating a package dependency and a link from mlcscope
>> to cscope would be a good idea and I would encourage that. I must
>> admit though, I don't actually know of anyone using mlcscope so I'm
>> not sure it will actually help anyone. I'd love to be proven wrong -
>> perhaps it was wildly popular and I didn't know it ;-) If you think
>> its worth continuing on this path to be safe, I'll be happy to help.
> Ok... I guess, what we can do is simply to obsolete mlcscope.  I'd
> create an empty new package and tweak the setup.hint file to require
> cscope.  After that it would be nice if you could just create a short
> announcement that mlcscope has been replaced by cscope and mlcscope
> gets discontinued.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
>
> Corinna
>


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