On 11.04.2022 16:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
2) Why do we create an executable with a name that is used by another
very wheel known program.
It's the other way around: ctags was a very old Unix program, and
Emacs developed a GNU version of that program. Universal ctags came
much later. So you should ask them why did they decide to use a name
that was already taken.
Even the very old version of ctags that's distributed by most of
GNU/Linux distributions these days (Ctags 5.9~svn20110310) supports
more languages than etags. Like ~50% more languages.
So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the our version of ctags was
never accepted as a true continuation or replacement.
It's not like we're doing a particularly active development of it either.