Re: idutils support

[Edward Peschko]

btw - a FYI - I have also tried to contact the idutils team,
but it seems to have very little signs of life
(last update - 2006, mailing list has had a total
of 20 posts over the last 3 years.

Ed

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Edward Peschko<address@hidden> wrote:
> All,
>
> When going through the id utils 'past and future' section, I noticed
> the following items:
>
> Future releases of idutils might include:
>
>    - an optional coupling with GNU grep, so that grep can use an ID
> database for hints
>
>    - a cscope work-alike query interface
>
>    - incremental update of the ID database.
>
> Now, I love grep's interface, but on large datasets it is agonizingly slow,
> since it redoes all the work of matching every single time the
> underlying files are read.
>
> Has there been any work/talk with the idutils team towards providing
> the optional
> coupling talked about in #1, or is the grep team satisfied with the
> boundaries of
> where it exists as a project?
>
> Ed
>