[Ctags-vms] FW: [Ctags-announce] Ctags-5.3 release

[zoltan.arpadffy@essnet.se]

hi,

OpenVMS exacutables (Alpha and VAX) are availabe at http://www.polarfox.com/ctags/

Regards, Z

-----Original Message-----
From: MIME :dhiebert Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:39 AM
To: ctags-announce
Subject: [Ctags-announce] Ctags-5.3 release


Here is the change log:

ctags-5.3 (Wed Jul 17 2002)
* Allowed --etags-include option without input files.
* Changed Asm parser to back to C-based parser to remove redundant tags,
  and extending its support for more variants [Asm].
* Changed to using _tempnam() to create temporary files on Windows, allowing
  "TMP" environment variable to set temporary directory.
* Changed the -x output to match that of traditional ctags when the --format=1
  option is supplied. The new format was also changed slightly to conform more
  closely to the original format, with the addition of the extra tag type field.
* Added support for Verilog language, submitted by Nam SungHyun.
* Added support for RISC OS platform, contributed by Andrew Wingate.
* Added support for "#pragma weak", generating macro tags for weak symbols [C].
* Added support for mixins and class methods to Ruby parser, submitted by
  Matthias Veit [Ruby].
* Added support to ctags and readtags library for case-folded sorting of tag
  files, submitted by Flemming Madsen.
* Added identification of class methods [Python].
* Fixed portability problems [Bugs #541997, #571240].
* Fixed bug in configure script [Solaris, Bug #542966].
* Fixed invalid package name tags [Perl, Bug #535068].
* Fixed failure to output relative paths into etags TAGS files on Win32
  [Bug #568365].
* Fixed incorrect line address in cases of line continuation [Fortran].
* Fixed missing tags for certain cases of invalid syntax [C].
* Fixed missing tags in Fortran with HPF extensions [Fortran, Bug #565813].
* Fixed spurious tag for clients portion of feature clause when following
  an empty feature clause [Eiffel].

-- Darren Hiebert <>
http://DarrenHiebert.com