Mail Archives: djgpp-announce/1997/02/24/07:28:05
This is to announce that a DJGPP port of GNU Id-utils 3.2 has been
uploaded to SimTel.NET mirrors:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/idu32b.zip (binaries)
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/idu32s.zip (sources)
(The binary distribution also includes the docs.)
What are Id-utils, you ask? Well, it's a package which allows you to
build a data-base of tokens by scanning a directory tree, then query that
data-base *fast*. Still don't get it? OK, let's try an example. Quick:
what DJGPP header files mention size_t? Even if you know how to look for
it ("fgrep size_t c:/djgpp/include/.../*.h"), it will take time for
`grep' to do that, and include/ is not so large. Id-utils are lightning
fast for these jobs (because they only scan the files once), and they
know about the language of the source file, so they won't index a token
like `for' in a C source file. You also can query the data-base when the
files aren't there; this comes in handly when you need to compress large
directories to free some disk real estate, but still want to be able to
unzip a file which you need when you need it.
The above is only a tip of an iceberg, believe me. Id-utils are
invaluable for development of large multi-file projects. So go on and
grab them.
Oh, and please limit any further traffic about the port to
comp.os.msdos.djgpp news group and the DJGPP mailing list; do NOT post to
djgpp-announce. Thanks.
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