On 2007-06-04, Dionysus Blazakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does OpenGrok do better? I saw the OpenGrok feature matrix on > the website, but it wasn't very illuminating. Was there a compelling > reason to use it? I'm only asking out of curiosity -- tools for code > understanding tend to interest me and I haven't had a chance to play > with OpenGrok much.
Well, it boils down to UI preferences. Eg. it speeds up browsing that for functions which are defined in the currently browsed file the occurrences of the function name are just anchors pointing to the location of the definition, and they don't trigger an overall source search for the identifier. I started my own xref service because the Dfly source on FXR was out of date. So my main problem was the content, not the web software. Nevertheless, I had to make a choice web-software-wise and I choose OpenGrok because it looked interesting (yes, you can say it was hyped). Now I will have a bit to catch up... Btw, these guys: http://openit.disco.unimib.it had a very promising enhanced LXR version -- eg., it could also display the names of the functions which are calling a given function, IIRC -- but they took it off. Csaba
