# Refactoring
**URL:** https://discourse.kitware.com/t/refactoring/111
**Category:** Software Process
**Created:** [May 23, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/refactoring/111 "2018-05-23T15:13:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@dcthomp](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/dcthomp)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/refactoring/111/1 "2018-05-23T15:13:30Z")
@Bob_Obara @tj.corona I haven’t used it, but the [refactorial](https://github.com/lukhnos/refactorial) project — which uses clang’s libtooling library to perform refactors — might make it easier to do some of the larger class renames. When I look at what `git grep Manager ` returns in SMTK, I see possible problems with resource::Manager, operation::Manager, as well as paraview references to ServerManager, ProxyManager, etc.
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### Author:  [@Bob\_Obara](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/Bob_Obara)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/refactoring/111/2 "2018-05-23T16:57:20Z")
Looks interesting though its hasn’t been modified for 5 years and the pre-built binaries don’t exist - I wonder if it still works?
Bob
Robert M. O’Bara, MEng.
Assistant Director of Scientific Computing
Kitware Inc.
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### Author:  [@Bob\_Obara](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/Bob_Obara)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/refactoring/111/3 "2018-05-23T21:11:52Z")
Does not compile -
Bob
Robert M. O’Bara, MEng.
Assistant Director of Scientific Computing
Kitware Inc.
28 Corporate Drive
Suite 101
Clifton Park, NY 12065
Phone: (518) 881- 4931
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### Author:  [@dcthomp](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/dcthomp)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/refactoring/111/4 "2018-05-23T21:53:05Z")
In the newer `llvm` homebrew package, I see a `clang-refactor` executable (in `/usr/local/Cellar/llvm/6.0.0/bin/`) that looks like it might do what you want with `local-rename`. I have not tried it yet, though.