GNU AutoGen/AutoOpts is a two-part project that serves two separate purposes. The two parts are combined because they are inextricably intertwined:
AutoGen is a tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. It is especially valuable in programs that have several blocks of text that must be kept synchronized. AutoOpts is both an example of that and a project in its own right. It is a very powerful configuration file, environment variable and command line option documentation and management tool consisting of a set of AutoGen templates and a run time library that nearly eliminates the hassle of managing, parsing and documenting program options. The self-referential example: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/man1-autogen.html Subprojects: AutoGen contains several "subprojects" since it relies on them and arranging for their distribution ahead of time is painful. There are basically two: FSM - A finite state machine generator. It allows you to specify an fsm by specifying the states, the valid transitions and the actions to take for the valid transitions. The actions may be either function calls or switch/case elements. The processing may be step-and-return, process-until-done or reentrant. Further details can be seen in the leading comments of fsm.tpl. New in 5.17 - December, 2012 NEWS entries since the last release: * Bit Map and Enumeration templates are now fully integrated. They have their own section in the texi docs and the templates produce more easily used output. * Guile adjustments. Guile inserts /usr/local/lib into the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, causing problems when you are trying to run programs that use not-yet-installed libraries. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now discarded. :( * The AG_TEST_GUILE_VERSION will now try "rpm -q" first before dpkg, "guile-config --verision" and "guile --version". * If a "min" count value has been specified, the emitted shell script option parsing code will now verify that the option appears that minimum number of times. AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.17/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.17/autogen-5.17.tar.gz .tar.xz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.17/autogen-5.17.tar.xz bug reports: autogen-users at the lists dot SourceForge net domain bug archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=autogen-users maintainer: Bruce Korb - bkorb at the usual GNU domain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ Autogen-users mailing list Autogen-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/autogen-users