Re: [PATCH -v2] scipts/tags.sh: Add custom sort order

From: peterz
Date: Thu Sep 03 2020 - 03:26:12 EST


On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 11:07:28AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> Contributors stop caring after their code is merged,
> but maintaining it is tiring.

This seems to hold in general :/

> Will re-implementing your sorting logic
> in bash look cleaner?

Possibly, I can try, we'll see.

> Or, in hindsight, we should have used python or perl?

I don't speak either :-/.

I googled to see if there is a python/perl ctags implementation we can
'borrow' and found https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags instead.
That seems to be a continuation of exhuberant ctags, I can also try if
they're interested in --sort-kinds or something like that.