cscope

Chuck Cranor <chuckece.cmu.edu> writes:

>    I propose that we import cscope into our source
tree.

I like cscope too, but I don't see a good reason for
importing it into
NetBSD.

>    I also think we should take advantage of being an
open source project 
> and look into providing better indexing of our source
tree.  Our current
> efforts on this front are broken (/var/db/libc.tags is
not useful, see
> PR 34913).  I would like to see us use better tools
(e.g. cscope) and
> provide more coverage (e.g. not just libc).

What is the size of an equivalent database generated by
cscope?
Wouldn't its size be too big to include in a release? (just
guessing)

>    It would also be nice to provide a web-based view
into the source
> tree, kind of like what open solaris does (but maybe
without java and
> all the baggage it brings).   see http://cvs.opensol
aris.org/source/
> for an example.

I'm not saying it's nice, but if you want to see what Global
can
generate on the sources of an i386 kernel without running it
yourself:

http://netbsd.en
seirb.fr/netbsd-3-0/

It is possible to generate also a "search"
functionality. The main
thing which isn't nice at all is that the file names (and
thus the
URLs) are encoded as numbers which can vary with each
regeneration of
the files... So it's very hard to publish a useful URL, and
you never
know in which file you land when you follow a link.

Regards,
 Aymeric