As a DXR contributor, I'd like to point out it hasn't been sitting still recently either: xpidl (find definitions/jump to headers) and JavaScript (ported from Searchfox, in fact) support have landed and are just waiting a config change in the production builder to be live. C++ search, particularly on template usage, has improved recently.
Fun things like path promotion and context around search results are currently under review. Peter (:new_one) On Jun 7, 2016, 7:27 AM -0700, Bobby Holley<bobbyhol...@gmail.com>, wrote: > Searchfox is the best thing ever. It made a huge difference in the speed > and ease with which I can query the codebase and get the answers I need. > > My understanding is that Bill achieved a lot of the performance and > correctness wins over dxr with different architectural choices, and by > using Rust. I think the results validate his design choices, and I think it > is very reasonable for him to have started from scratch in order to > experiment without needing to align with the dxr roadmap. > > I would be thrilled if dxr could incorporate the technology in searchfox or > somehow achieve similar performance and features in some other way. But > until that is shown to be possible, the existence of searchfox is a huge > win for gecko hacking, and I am very grateful for the work Bill put into it > (largely on his own time, iiuc). > > bholley > On 07/06/16 01:18 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I'm going to sound negative, but why? Or more precisely, why not > > contribute to DXR to add those features that you implemented in > > searchfox that DXR doesn't have? > > > > MXR is already taking too long to fade out of existence, do we really > > want yet another different tool? > > > > Mike > > > > +1. The technical achievement here is very impressive, and there looks > to be a ton of useful features. The blame walking looks especially > useful for me. But DXR is very actively developed, has 45 contributors > and 146 forks: > https://github.com/mozilla/dxr > > I just don't see the point of competition between internal code > searching tools. I would love if ideas from searchfox (like blame > walking) could be incorporated into DXR. > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
