[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Sync ctags main part (#1263)

[Franck ALBARET]

> @DansLeRuSH its great that you have contributed filetype improvements.

You're welcome, I love Geany and if I could help :blush: 

> But if Cobol is so useful then Cobol users should step up and provide support for the parser.

You're absolutely right ! I told so to my past and actual colleagues.
Perhaps improving actual possibilities could help :thinking: 

> Geany is a totally volunteer project, its is not supported by any companies. Those banks and companies you mention should be able to have their people contribute if they want support to continue

The main problem here is that those companies love to give a lot of money to historical software suppliers, have no trust in opensource projects and there's a gap between CIO/supplier trade agreements and developpers needs. But yes I'm agree with you.

> (sadly I suspect they all use Eclipse).

You're partly right if it's a classical mainframe on z/OS. The problem here is that IBM has built a solution on top of Eclipse (IDz) but it's not open source and really expensive, small companies can't afford that.

> The suggestion to abandon Cobol is because something needs to be done to continue support, and in a volunteer project, if no one contributes that, then support can not continue.

I'm aware of that and abover all, thank you for the hard work !

> I'm not an expert on whats needed, but IIUC the problem is that the Cobol parser uses a different Regex library from the rest of Geany, and, as I asked above I'm not sure why thats an issue, and what is needed to make it work. Perhaps open a specific issue to discuss it if its an issue [pun intended].

I'm a proud daddy and I haven't so much time but I could help sometimes If you need :vulcan_salute: :nerd_face: 

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