Use pfff as tool

[priv-kweihmann]

Maybe https://github.com/facebook/pfff is worth a look, as it seems to support a variety of languages

[priv-kweihmann]

According to this facebookarchive/pfff#158 (comment) pfff doesn't seem to be under active development anymore. Also this project does have major version constraints when using opam. After a deeper look into the actual performed check. I decided to close this issue as the effort does weight up the benefit of this tool.

[daghan]

Hi @priv-kweihmann,
We noticed that you closed this issue because pfff is no longer maintained. In fact, the core developer for pfff is with us and we are actively maintaining sgrep.

[priv-kweihmann]

@daghan thanks for letting me know - still the other points do remain, like version constraints - or did that change?
Or did you just trying to advertise sgrep to me ;-)?

[aryx]

the constraint right now is to use ocaml < ocaml 4.07 but there's a ticket to remove the use of camlp4 which would allow to use ocaml > 4.07 too

[priv-kweihmann]

If I ever going to include any ocaml based tool, it has to come up with support of the latest stable branch (afaik 4.09)

[aryx]

FYI I've just updated pfff to work with recent OCaml versions, including OCaml 4.10.0.
there's a new OPAM package that just got merged here: ocaml/opam-repository#16125

[priv-kweihmann]

Thanks - that leaves me only with the burden of integrating ocaml into yocto;-)