Re: Additional ctags' Perl support

[knowmad]

Just in case anyone comes across this thread looking for information about Perl support for ctags, I'd like share some recent ctags developments which I've been researching. The support for package labels has been removed[1] as of v5.5.3[2] due to bugs. This may affect how you apply the patch to recent releases of ctags.

William

[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=448887&group_id=6556&atid=356556

[2] http://ctags.sourceforge.net/news.html

[dmitri]

I am not sure exactly what bugs were found in my patch, as Darren's response does not seem to indicate this. I believe Perl support in 5.5.4 is not up to par (pretty crippled, actually), compared to my patch.

I am working on the next patch, which I will post on ctags mailing list and on perlmonks. New features include support for generating tags for exceptions definitions, method calls (ABC::XYZ->new(), for instance), et al.