[Bug-indent] status of indent

[Matt Ball]

Hi David,

I've been looking at the bug-indent list, and noticed your last post was around
September of 2003.  The last release appears to be version 2.2.9, sometime
around December 2002.  Do you have any plans to continue maintainance on this
package?

If not, I'm interested in possibly becoming the new maintainer of indent and
making a version 2.3.0 (or 3.0.0...).  I'll need to spend several weeks (or
months) bringing myself up to speed with the code (and making some cleanup
changes), but after that I should be able to get a new version out, possible on
sourceforge.net.  What are your thoughts?

I've got several ideas, including the following:

- Add support for C++ (and maybe Java later)
- Change the parser to use lex/yacc (i.e. flex/bison)
- Improve the source code analysis so that the -T option isn't necessary to
identify typedefs (identify function argument declarations, and assume "A *B;"
is a declaration, not a useless multiply statement).
- Add an option to line up similar components of parallel structures (i.e.
argument declarations, structure initializer tables, bit field ':', parallel
assignments, etc)

I look forward to hearing back from you!
-Matt Ball