Re: Up for adoption: ctags and expat

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 11 17:49, Warren Young wrote:
> I’m the current maintainer of these two packages.  As it happens,
> I have never seriously used either under Cygwin.  I only adopted
> ctags because it was abandoned in 2003 and was in danger of being
> removed from the distribution after repeated attempts to contact its
> maintainer in 2005 failed.  Since I do use ctags on other platforms,
> I decided that I was at least in a position to keep it in Cygwin,
> so I adopted it.  The situation was less drastic with expat: I simply
> took over the package’s maintenance when Brian Dessent stepped down
> in 2008.
> 
> The time has come for someone else to maintain these packages.
> 
> But not just anyone.  I do not want to drop another twig onto the
> back of someone who’s already carrying a lot for the Cygwin project.
> I’d prefer that these packages to go to someone who’s been looking
> to jump into Cygwin package maintainership, and has just been waiting
> for an excuse. 
> 
> These two are a mixed bag when it comes to ease of maintainership, 
> each for very different reasons.
> 
> The easy part with ctags is that there hasn’t been an upstream 
> release since 2009, and there is no reason to expect that there will 
> be another.  The hard part is that the shipped Makefile doesn’t
> understand how to do out-of-tree builds, something Cygport expects
> to be able to do, so I had to write a custom build script to produce 
> the current packages, which might have to be adjusted by the next
> maintainer of this package, if a new version comes out with the same
> primitive build system. 

Given the obvious lack of upstream development, did anybody try
to replace exuberant ctags with universal ctags?

  https://ctags.io/

I noticed that our co-maintainer Frank Fesevur is involved in this
project.  Frank, any insight?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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