Big changes:
- Allows the symbolic links which point to directories, and treats
the names of struct, union, enum and enum member as definitions.
(5.7)
- Uses GPLv3 and LGPLv3 license. (5.6)
- Becomes GNU BOKINware. (5.5)
Details:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/global/global/NEWS?view=markup
Bunch of incompatible format changes. DON'T FORGET TO RE-GENERATE TAGS!
Version 5.4 - January 29 2007, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* Further compression of tag file (format version 5).
Though new global can read older tag file since version-5.0, older
global cannot read new format. It might say like follows:
"GTAGS seems new format. Please install the latest GLOBAL."
[OTHER CHANGES]
* global: Improved performance when the -x option is not specified.
* globash.rc: Added new option -l for tag search command (x,r,s,g,P,I,f).
This option invokes less(1) directly without tag stack.
* Verbose messages are unified.
P option file not found
<n> files located
others object not found
path format: <n> files located
other format:<n> objects located
[BUG FIXED]
* Gtags(1) and global(1) didn't work well in the system root directory('/').
Version 5.3 - November 20 2006, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* global: Changed not to locate other symbols (-s) in GTAGSLIBPATH.
This is the original specification of GLOBAL.
* global: Stop sorting when the -I(--idutils) option specified.
The output of gid(idutils) is sorted by the suitable way. Though the order is
slightly differ from global(1), it need not be sorted again.
[OTHER CHANGES]
* global: Added new option -O(--only-other).
* htags: Added some new options and new arguments which are synonyms of config variable.
This decreases dependence on configration file.
new option | config variable
------------------------+-------------------------
--disable-grep | disable_grep
--table-list | table_list
--tabs=<n> | tabs
--full-path | full_path
new argument | config variable
------------------------+-------------------------
--line-number [columns] | ncol
--func-header [position]| definition_header
--xhtml [version] | xhtml_version
(*=default)
position: before, right, *after
version: *1.0, 1.1
* htags: Changed to use each 'CVS/Repository' file to generate URLs if it is available.
* htags: Added '.gitignore' to the default skip file list.
* gtags.el:
- Shorten path names in [GTAGS SELECT MODE]:
If project directory is specified using 'gtags-visit-rootdir', gtags.el print path
using the relative path name from the project directory, else print absolute path name.
- Support dynamic completing-read of tag name.
gtags-make-complete-list is deprecated. You can enjoy tag name completetion without
invoking this command.
[BUG FIXED]
* gtags: gtags had exited when it encountered dead symbolic link.
and by Murray Armfield in PR 34636.
Version 5.2 - August 8 2006, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
* htags: Added new options:
- -h(--func-header) option.
- -I(--icon) option.
- -T(table-flist[=fields]) option.
Suggested options:
$ htags -vsanohIT
* htags: Changed the default color of braces from blue to red to make them stand out.
* htags: Always enable 'Grep pattern' form when the -f(--form) option specified.
Removed config variable 'enable_grep' since it became meaningless. Instead, added
a new variable 'disable_grep'.
* htags: Removed config variable 'enable_grep' since it is meaningless.
Instead, added a new variable 'disable_grep'.
* htags: Added more profitable tips in file browser.
- File size of bytes
- Directory number of files in the directory.
Version 5.1 - June 10 2006, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* Changed the priority about the --result option to make the format
specification easy. The --result option is given to priority more
than the -t and -x option. (This option appeared in version 5.0.)
[OTHER CHANGES]
* Added new program 'gtags-cscope'.
Gtags-cscope is a pseudo cscope which implements the line-oriented
interface. You can use this command for various clients instead of
true cscope.
* Added new format 'cscope' to the argument of --result=<format>.
Version 5.0 - April 21 2006, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* Moved to new tag format. (GTAGS, GRTAGS, GSYMS, GPATH)
The purpose is as follows:
o Allows path name including blanks, at least in tag files.
(GLOBAL still doesn't support path name which contains blanks.)
o Decrease disk space used.
o Make tag format simpler.
o Realize stable performance.
Hereafter, older tag format is not supported.
Compact format was progressively canceled with the adoption of
the new tag format. The -c(--compact) option of gtags(1) was removed.
The following error messages are displayed in a wrong combination:
- older global and new tag file
$ global -x main
GTAGS seems new format. Please install the latest GLOBAL.
- new global and older tag file
$ global -x main
GTAGS seems older format. Please remake tag files.
Known problem:
- older global and new tag file
Global(1) with the -g or -P command will always work as if invoked
with the -o option. There is no way to avoid this problem.
New requirement:
* Added new requirement of plug-in parser
Plug-in parser must process arguments in the order they are given
in the command line. In each file, any order is acceptable.
Exuberant Ctags with the -xu option meets this requirement.
(See global.info for the detail.)
Removed options:
* gtags(1): The -c(--compact) option was removed.
Compact format was progressively canceled with the adoption of the new
tag format.
* gtags(1): The -o(--omit-gsyms) option was removed.
This option was necessary in the past to use the program in a incompetent
machine with a small hard disk. Since most recent machines has powerful
CPU and mass hard disk. This options might already be unnecessary.
* htags(1): The --style-sheet option was removed.
This is a really halfway option, and now nobody might need it because
the --xhtml option became available.
[OTHER CHANGES]
New options:
* global: Added --result=<format> option. Grep format is newly supported.
<format>: path,ctags,ctags-x,grep
conventional option | newly added option
--------------------+---------------------
(none) | --result=path
-t | --result=ctags
-x | --result=ctags-x
| --result=grep
The -t and -x option are given to priority more than the --result
option.
Version 4.8.7 - September 30 2005, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
New options:
* gtags: New --file file-list option added.
Gtags(1) accept a file list specified by --file option.
% find . -type f -print >/tmp/list
% gtags --file=/tmp/list
or
% find . -type f -print | gtags --file=-
* gtags: New --max-args option added.
Improvement of efficiency:
* Gtags was improved of performance by changing algorithm of
incremental updating. Along with it, the verbose message was
greatly changed.
* Gtags was improved of performance by decreasing the frequency
of the parser invoking.
Under the influence of it, the verbose message is not necessarily
real-time. If you dislike this behavior, use the --max-args
option of gtags. You can control the frequency of the invoking
with the option. With --max-args=1, the program does the same
behavior as older version.
* Htags was improved of performance by decreasing the frequency
of the parser invoking.
* Htags was improved of performance by omiting flushing temporary
files to the disk.
Fixed bugs:
* Htags didn't treat here document of PHP source code correctly.
(<<<WORD)
* Htags didn't treat HTML part of PHP source code correctly.
Other facilities:
* Added 'Htags Hyper-text Reference Kit'.
The hyper-text generated by htags(1) is available from external
programs. This kit helps you to convert the path of the source
file into the URL in the hyper-text.
* doc/global.txi: Added the usage of Doxygen using GLOBAL.
Version 4.8.6 - May 12 2005, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* htags: Changed the value of id attribute and name attribute of
line number anchor from line number itself to 'L' + line number
like this.
<a name='100'> => <a name='L100'>
It is because XHTML prohibit the id attribute which starts
with a digit. If you refer these anchors from outer system,
please rewrite it.
[OTHER CHANGES]
* htags: New option --insert-header and --insert-footer added.
Version 4.8.5 - April 19 2005, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
* htags: XHTML support(--xhtml) added.
If the --frame option is specified then generate XHTML-1.0 Frameset,
else if config variable 'xhtml_version' is set to 1.1 then generate
XHTML-1.1 else XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
You can customize the appearance using style sheet file 'style.css'.
* htags: Added config variable 'xhtml_version'.
* htags: Added 'html/' to the fault skip list of htags(1).
It is the output directory of doxygen document.
* gtags-parser: Added yacc directives introduced in bison-2.0.
%default-prec(%default_prec)
%expect-rr(%expect_rr)
%initial-action
%no-default-prec(%no_default_prec,%no_default-prec,%no-default_prec)
%nondeterministic-parser
Version 4.8.4 - March 4 2005, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
Fixed bugs:
* gtags-parser: C and C++ parser was broken.
* gnusort: Compile error in Solaris environment.
Version 4.8.3 - February 26 2005, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* DOS and Windows 32 support ended.
But it doesn't mean the deletion of the code for DOS and Windows 32.
We leave the support to outside projects and accept the code
from them as is. Therefore, anything has not changed substantially
up to now.
* Command gctags(1) was renamed to gtags-parser(1) because some systems
have another 'gctags' which is not GLOBAL's.
* About gtags-parser(1), language type of source file is decided
only by the suffix. In older version, *.h file was considered
to be C++ source file if it includes token 'class'. But the new version
considers it always C source file. If you want to consider it C++
then you must redefine new config variable 'langmap'.
[OTHER CHANGES]
Fixed bugs:
* htags: The --gtagsconf and --gtagslabel option didn't work correctly.
* htags: Buffer overflow occurred in dupindex.c:makedupindex().
* htags: Could not ignore path name which includes blank correctly.
New features:
* gtags,htags: New config variable 'langmap' added.
This variable is used for customizing the mapping of languages and the
parsers, and it includes the function of obsoleted 'suffixes' variable.
If you use 'suffixes' then it is effective else GLOBAL internally
generates the value of 'suffixes' from the 'langmap'.
The reason to continue 'suffixes' is that it is needed for plug-in parser.
If you don't use plug-in parser then you should use 'langmap' instead.
* htags: New config variable 'copy_files' added.
If the -f option is used then htags makes links of tag files in 'cgi-bin'
directory by default. With this variable, htags copy tag files instead of
linking.
Version 4.8.2 - November 11 2004, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* Postgres support ended.
* Htags.pl (perl version of htags) was removed completely.
* Config variable sed_command and sort_command were removed.
The sed(1) and sort(1) are not necessary any longer.
[OTHER CHANGES]
Fixed bugs:
* Wrong output of 'global -Po' was fixed.
New features:
* gctags(assembly language):
- In addition to `call', `jsr' is recognized as call instruction.
Although various call instructions exist like `bl' or `calls',
only `call' and `jsr' are used widely.
- Macros like ENTRY or EXT are taken up as reference,
when definitions exist in somewhere else.
- Warning is displayed when a comment is not closed.
- C_SYMBOL_NAME and C_ENTRY are recognized as a macro
which shows the start of a function.
- The string which is not closed finishes at the end of line.
This behavior is the same as GNU C preprocessor.
- The check of correspondence of "#if" and "#endif" was deleted.
This did not exist in version 4.8.
* New directory '.snprj/' was added to the DEFAULTSKIP list.
This is the tag directory of Source-Navigator.
Version 4.8.1 - October 6 2004, by Shigio YAMAGUCHI
Fixed bugs:
* htags: The -d option of htags didn't work.
* htags: didn't recognize continued line and null directive(#).
New features:
* htags: make suffix list of include file configurable.
(See man htags(1). config variables: include_file_suffixes)
* htags: try TMP if TMPDIR doesn't exist.(only DJGPP)
* htags: Warn about unknown preprocessing directive. As the exception,
when unknown preprocessing directive appeared in assembly source,
it will be recognized as the start of a shell comment.
* htags: Add all yacc directives understood by bison-1.875.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
Changes since 4.7:
August 26 2004, Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@gnu.org>
* Moved function now() from gtags.c to libutil/date.c.
* htags: Changed so that the path passed to CGI might be encoded to %xx.
* htags: Rewritten in C language.
* htags: The use of the 'gtags --write' was stopped.
* die.c: New function sethandler() and warning() added.
* gctags/reserved.pl: The use of the --key-positions option of gperf(1)
was stopped. We need gperf-3.0.1 instead.
June 1 2004, Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@gnu.org>
* htags: Function usable() was changed to the same specification
as usable() in libutil/usable().
* htags: Execution path of global(1) was changed to the absolute path.
* htags: Write FILEMAP file for reference from external system.
* conf.c: New config variable 'bindir' and 'datadir' added.
* w32/ directory removed.
* Gtags.vim, plugin script integrates GLOBAL with vim editor added.
GLOBAL-4.6.
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* The default value of the config variable 'definition_header' was changed
to 'no', because the definition header is unsightly according to the place,
especially in class definition.
[OTHER CHANGES]
* Added support for PHP language.
(Known problems in htags)
- The variable in string cannot be recognized.(global can recognize that.)
- In HTML, the character string of the same spelling as the reserved
word of PHP is recognized as a reserved word of PHP.
I will rewrite htags in C language in the future to solve above problems.
* Added support for SCM_DEFINE macro which is part of guile-snarf.
* Added 'right' as a value of config variable 'definition_header'.
* Added some tool tips.
- Alphabet in alphabetical index shows the count of definitions.
- File name in file index show the full path name.
- Anchor to duplicate index show the number of duplicated objects.
* Added .cvsrc,.cvsignore,.cvspass,.cvswrappers,autom4te.cache/
to the default skip list.
GLOBAL 4.5.3.
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* htags: Htags does not generate the code of javascript at all.
In the former version, we used javascript to display information about
links. But a browser these days had come to support the tool tip using
'title' attribute. So, we replaced the function using tool tip instead
of javascript facility.
* The --no-javascript option was removed because it was already unnecessary.
* global: The pattern of the argument came always to be interpreted
as a extended regular expression. In the former version, there was both
the case for the pattern to be interpreted as a basic regular expression
and the interpretation as the extended regular expression. This depended
on the environment of the build. (If you have grep(1) and xargs(1),
basic regular expression will be used.)
In the new version, if you want the pattern to be interpreted as a basic
regular expression, please specify the -G option.
[OTHER CHANGES]
New features:
htags:
* CVS REPOSITORY link (the --cvsweb and --cvsweb-cvsroot option).
You can link CVS repository from the hypertext of source code.
* Tooltip inserted in links.
* The --no-map-file option added.
Htags generate 'MAP' file by default. You can suppress it by this.
* The --statistics option added.
With this option, htags print statistics information to the standard error.
global:
* The -e(--regexp) option added like grep(1).
* The -G(--basic-regexp) option added like egrep(1).
Performance tuning:
htags:
* Remove tag name and line image from cache record. This made cache
file smaller.
* The use of the temporary file was suppressed to the minimum by tring to
read the source code.
Other modifications
* A security hole was shut.
* conf.h: add '{arch}' and '.notfunction' to default skip list.
* gctags: support __attribute__((...)).
GLOBAL 4.5.2.
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* htags: move title's '<H1>...</H1>' into configuration variables
'title_begin' and 'title_end'. This makes configuration more flexible.
If you are still using older version of gtags.conf, please replace it
with one in this version.
[OTHER CHANGES]
* htags: add INCLUDED FROM index of htags by Hideki IWAMOTO.
This indexes the places where the header file is included.
* htags: add support of multi-line string.
* htags, gtags: pass option '-w' from htags to gtags.
* htags: allow reference to nonexistent definition without warning.
* htags: add missing reserved words.
- add C99 reserved words _Bool,_Complex,_Imaginary,inline,restrict.
- add missing C++ reserved words asm,bool,const_cast,dynamic_cast,
explicit,export,false,mutable,namespace,reinterpret_cast,static_cast,
true,typeid,typename,using,wchar_t.
* htags: insert HTML tag in the line which was warned.
(see configuration variable 'colorize_warned_line', 'warned_line_begin'
and 'warned_line_end'.)
* gctags: pick up reference to macro in conditional directive.
* gctags: remove wchar_t from the reservation word list of C.
* gctags: remove overload from the reserved word list of C++.
* gctags: remove wchar_t from the reservation word list of C.
* gtags: environment variable GTAGSCACHE added.
* and many bug fi
GLOBAL-4.5.1.
New features:
o gtags,htags: --gtagslabel option added.
o htags: -D(--dynamic) option added.
o Some bugs fixed.
Changes:
Version 4.5 - July 4 2002, by Shigio Yamaguchi
* htags: -m(--main-func) option added.
* htags: --style-sheet=<style file> option added.
* htags: --no-javascript option and no_javascript config variable added.
* htags: -g(--gtags) option added.
* htags: -s(--symbols) option and symbols config variable added.
* gctags: --langmap option added.
* gctags: -t and -d option added.
* gtags: pick up macros with noargument, typedef name and enum member.
* gozilla: -d option added.
* gctags: assumes __attribute__, const, volatile, wchar_t as a reserved word
in C language. assumes __attribute__, explicit, mutable, namespace,
overload, typename, using as a reserved word in C++ language.
Version 4.4 - March 30 2002, by Shigio Yamaguchi
* gozilla: gozilla return to GLOBAL.
* htags: -o(--other) option added. This option list not only source files
but also other files like 'README'.
* global: -o(--other) option added. This option search in not only source
files but also other files like 'README'.
* htags: configuration variable other_files added.
* htags: configuration variable definition_header={no|after|before} added.
* htags: configuration variable enable_grep and enable_idutils added.
* htags: -l(--each-line-tag) option deleted.
From now on, htags works as if -l flag is always specified.
But -l(--each-line-tag) option is accepted for backward compatibility.
* global: path conversion optimized and bug fixed.
* gtags.conf: added documentation about variables.
* htags: shut another security hole.
* Some bugs are fixed.
Version 4.3.1 - January 22 2002, by Shigio Yamaguchi
This is bug fix version.
* htags: global.cgi wasn't generated correctly.
Version 4.3 - January 10 2002, by Shigio Yamaguchi
* Support DJGPP.
* Support nvi-1.81.5.
* global.texi: chapter of less viewer, nvi-1.81.5 and reference manuals added.
* global,gtags: the -q option added.
* htags: fill anchors into path name.
* global: GTAGSROOT file supported.
Version 4.2 - November 24 2001, by Shigio Yamaguchi
* postgres support added.
You need to configure GLOBAL with --with-postgres option.
* gtags: when no parser specified in config file, overloaded by default values.
* gtags: variable 'skip' accept full path name.
* htags: changed to refer to macros which is defined in other C source.
* htags: --caution option added.
* global.texi: reference manual added.
* gtags, htags: allow relative path name for --gtagsconf.
Version 4.1.1 - July 31, 2001, by Shigio Yamaguchi
* htags: bug fixed. bless.sh removed 'TARGET=mains'.
* htags: bug fixed. bless.sh didn't work without config file.
* configure: bug fixed. --srcdir option didn't work.
now you can build project at any directory other than source directory.
* htags: generates rebuild.sh to redo the job with the previous context.
* globash.rc: when GTAGSROOT specified, prompt is changed to "[$root]!$cwd"
instead of "[$root]/...".
* globash.rc: bug fixed. number was ignored in 'next <no>' and 'prev <no>'.
* globash.rc: The -e option of show use emacsclient instead of emacs.
Version 4.1 - July 12, 2001, by Shigio Yamaguchi
[INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES]
* global: rename the -i(incremental) option to -u(update) and the new
-i(--ignore-case) option added because -i options is generally used
for this purpose (see grep(1)).
* gtags.conf: rename global.conf into gtags.conf because the old name was
too generic. (GLOBAL also accepts old name for compatibility.)
[OTHER CHANGES]
* Some bugs are fixed.
* globash.rc: GloBash --- Global facility for Bash added.
* htags: create bless.sh when the -S option specified.
* htags: config variables prolog_script, epilog_script, show_position,
position_begin, position_end and icase_path added.
* htags: path name search facility added.
* htags: locate dbpath like global(1) does.
* htags: show addtional information on status bar.
* gtags: the -i option also locate tag files among cadedite directories.
* global, gtags: make icase_path allways enable in Windows32 environment.
* global: the -T(--through) option added.
* gtags, htags: --gtagsconf option added.
* gtags.conf: 'htags_options' added.
* globa.texi: the method to use vim with GLOBAL and the description
about GloBash added.
Remove `-p' from mkdir arguments, it is already part of ${MKDIR}.
While here substitute a couple of ${PREFIX} by `%D' in
`@exec ${MKDIR} ...' lines and add a couple of missing `%D' in such lines too!
Fixes pkg/9668 by nagae@tk.airnet.ne.jp
What's New since 3.54
The -g and -s option are optimized.
Above serious bug is fixed.
What's New since 3.5
Ported to Cygwin tools for WIN32 environment.
(You need Cygwin tools Release B20.1)
Gozilla ported to WIN32 environment.(You need Borland C compiler)
Gtags.el was improved.
Ported to Solaris.
What's New since 3.44
C++ supported.
XEmacs supported.
Ported to WIN32 environment.(You need Borland C++ compiler 4.5 or 5.0)
