Re: ITP: cscope -- Interactively examine a C program source

[Dave And Diane <daveanddiane at kringlecottage dot com>]

Hi Corinna,

Thanks for doing this - the past week got away from me.

Dave
On 10/21/2012 5:18 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 20 18:54, Dave And Diane wrote:
> > 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 announcement that mlcscope has been replaced by cscope and mlcscope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
> Ok, I created an emtpy mlcscope-99-1 package and changed setup.hint
> like this:
>
>    sdesc: "Obsolete Lucent version of cscope"
>    ldesc: "Obsolete Lucent version of cscope"
>    requires: cscope
>    category: _obsolete
>
>
> Corinna


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