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<[email protected]> 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 >
