On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Prequel is like Coccinelle, but for searching in Git commit histories.
>
> I am curious on how this software approach will evolve further.
>
>
> > http://prequel-pql.gforge.inria.fr/
> >
> > Feedback is welcome.
>
> I pick your offer up now.
>
> Thus I have read your research report 8918 (Prequel: A Patch-Like Query
> Language
> for Commit History Search) to some degree.
>
> 1. I imagine that the activities behind the description for a chapter like
> "5 Compilation of PQL into SmPL" triggered some development challenges.
>
> Does an interface exists to view the generated SmPL source code?
It goes into the directory specified with the --tmp argument.
>
> 2. Did this new query language influence further improvements for the semantic
> patch language?
>
> * Did the error reporting become a bit safer by this command usage?
No. The code bases are separate,
> * How much will the data format flexibility evolve together with the
> handling
> of a key word like "flexible" for metavariables?
No idea what this means (data format flexibility).
> 3. I get concerns from the section "5.2 Idealized syntax".
> How would you categorise it according to the Chomsky-Schützenberger
> hierarchy?
No idea. It seems like a straightforward BNF.
> 4. How many means do you offer to restrict commit ranges according to the
> section
> "6.1 Commit selection"?
The commit range is just X..Y. X ad Y could be commit ids or tags (v4.0,
for example).
> 5. Can the combination of words like "token" and "regular expression"
> be occasionally confusing?
Does the word regular expression occur in the paper?
> 6. How interesting will discussions become around the used hardware
> that is mentioned in the chapter "7 Evaluation" and the corresponding
> software performance?
Not sure what there is to discuss.
> 7. How is the status for function and class libraries for this application
> domain?
No idea what this means.
julia
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