From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 13 19:38:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A5B14DF6 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:38:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA64449; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:38:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:38:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: John Polstra , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Search a symbol in the source tree In-Reply-To: <199910132251.SAA07080@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > Er, global is part of the base system. :-) > > Hehe, I knew that. > > My point was that the entire package isn't built and the author's > going GPL anyway and since nobody recommended it ... That sure would > make a nice port ;-) That's simply not true, and we know (since it was on the mailing list) that you know better. The author's committed to keeping the BSD version current, and in the present license. You said you were for pruning down the size of FreeBSD, which is a defensible position, but misrepresenting the author is really unfair, and you can't justify what you're doing here because of it. You were called on this when you did it then, too. > > For the original poster gtags/htags is an excellent tool for your > purposes. In its full installation it can generate html versions > of your code and is chock full of other features too. Give it a > test drive :-) > > Cheers, > > Jerry Hicks > wghicks@bellsouth.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message