[cfe-dev] [RFC] A C++ pseudo parser for tooling

[James Y Knight via cfe-dev]

>
>  there are use cases where it is impractical to have a real compilation
> environment setup.
>

To me, this seems like it'll be the biggest win here.

Figuring out how to build the software, and to then how to get a
compilation-database out of the build (if that's even possible), in order
to setup indexing/etc...for every OSS codebase I simply want to explore the
code of...it is, indeed, completely impractical. Anything beyond "git clone
$X" and opening the resultant files in an editor is not gonna happen.

So, overall, I've continued to make do with the primitive text-based tools,
because those work universally. If the more advanced tools could work *at
least as well *without needing any additional per-project setup, but then
get progressively better if you do end up providing more information, that
seems awesome. If you can make it work. :)
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