[Geany-Devel] Why has the universal ctags project to be merged?

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 21/03/2018 à 17:17, Lars Paulsen a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I have got a maybe stupid question out of curiosity:
> Why needs the universal ctags project be merged into Geany instead of
> e.g. just copying it over?

Lex covered it more thoroughly I guess, but it basically simply boils
down to having two very similar yet different codebases.  Ultimately
we'd like to make it a lot easier to share work, but it requires work on
both ends, as we also have features not present in U-CTags, mostly the
ability to parse in-memory data (ctags is really a command-line tool,
but we wanna use it as a library).

So… in the end the only reason is that work is needed to get to the
point where we can simply upgrade out U-CTags copy to get the new stuff.

Regards,
Colomban