TakeFive Software GmbH, Salzburg, Austria, has added a new release of its Sniff+ C and C++ development environment. Sniff+ 2.0 comes with new building, project management and comprehension tools, shared development suite and documentation builder. It can accommodate small application development and code-building involving millions of lines with a data repository that scales linearly with code size. TakeFive uses a fuzzy parser to extract information from complete, incomplete or noncompiled source code rather than parsing code through a compiler in the traditional fashion. Taligent Inc has been using Sniff+ to build its application development environment for some time, and is expected to bundle Sniff+ 2.0 with the promised AIX 4.1 beta of what is now termed CommonPoint. Indeed Taligent’s investment was sufficient enough for TakeFive to set up shop in Cupertino, California last year. TakeFive says users can mix and match development systems, compiler, debugger and existing tools for use with Sniff+ 2.0, which also has interfaces to a bunch of version control packages, including Atria Software Inc’s ClearCase. It supports the Purify testing suite and software through Pictures CASE. Sniff+ 2.0 is up under Irix, NetWare, Santa Cruz Unix, Solaris, AIX, Alpha-OSF/1 and HP-UX. It is priced from $3,000.
