Re: coywolf's gnumach lxr

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:04:11 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann
<address@hidden> wrote:
> At Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:17:43 +0800,
> Coywolf Qi Hunt <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:50:56 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > At Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:15:23 +0800,
> > > Coywolf Qi Hunt <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > hello,
> > > >
> > > > I've just made this gnumach lxr.  I was looking for hurd lxr. And the
> > > > people in #hurd encouraged me to set up one myself. So, this is it.
> > > > http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr-gnumach/source/ Should it be added to
> > > > the offical hurd page?
> > >
> > > How is this different from
> > >
> > > http://www.htu.tugraz.at/~past/hurd/global/
> > >
> > > which already exists for a long time now?  Can you point out
> > > differences (in particular functional ones)?
> >
> > I knew gnu global and that link. But i am familiar with lxr. If something
> > goes wrong, i can fix the lxr perl script.
> 
> That's fine, but what are the functional differences?  We can hardly
> advertise it on the web page as the "cross reference based on the
> cross reference generator which coywolf is familiar with".  Ie, if we
> offer two links to two different cross references, we should provide
> the visitor of the web page with enough information to make a sensible
> decision which one to pick.


The original reason for me to use lxr linux is that it's convenient to
browse multiple linux versions which is impossible with tools like
source navigator or.global. I have 29 different lxr linux versions on
my home desktop and it grows. However, hurd doesn't have so many
releases yet. And i may not add many versions in future due to the
limited disk space on sosdg.

Sorry for delayed reply.

--coywolf

> 
> > > If you are committed to keep the site up at that URL for a long term,
> >
> > Yes, I will. And I have Brian Bruns' full support. He is one of the
> > sosdg admins.
> 
> Ok, great.
> 
> > But maybe in future i'll have to change the url
> > http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr-gnumach/source/
> > to
> > http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr-foo/source/
> > or something similar, or just setup another link for hurd source.
> >
> > Since hurd isn't released, i don't set up hurd source yet.
> 
> Actually, the Hurd is released (0.2 was released 1997), so if that's
> the only thing holding you up, you should add it, and mig, too.
> 
> It would also make much sense to add glibc, as a bunch of the Hurd's
> functionality is implemented there, and it cross references heavily
> with the Hurd (although not always in machine-parseable ways I am
> afraid).
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 
> 


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