Re: xref and GNU Global?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nicolas Petton <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:28:55 +0200
> 
> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 08/19/2015 12:02 PM, Nicolas Petton wrote:
> >
> >> I find GNU Global to be far superior to etags or ctags.  Is there any
> >> plan to have support for it in xref.el? (Or maybe there is and I missed
> >> it).  Else I might start working on that.
> >
> > I would approach it from a different direction: by adding xref support 
> > to ggtags (in GNU ELPA).
> 
> I meant in general, with ggtags or something else, but yes, I'd probably
> do it this way too.

If we want GNU Global support be part of the core functionality, and
consider it as replacement for etags, then its support should be in
core Emacs, not on ELPA.