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 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 New in 5.11.6 - February, 2011 Here are the 'NEWS' entries since the last release * Cope with Guile version number 2.0 * XML character encodings are parsed in config files, thus <opt-name>...<...</opt-name> yields "...<..." * exit codes are enumerated for auto-opts projects They will appear in an enumeration in the header file and in generated documentation. * program documentation templates have been improved. See docs. * packaging information The PKGDATADIR and --with-packager... information are now compiled into the option structure. This makes it possible for config file searches to look in ${PKGDATADIR} by using "$@/" as the lead part of a "homerc" name. e.g. homerc = "$@/config"; will look for a file named "config" in that directory. "help" and "version" information will now include any --with-packager stuff. AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.11.6/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.11.6/autogen-5.11.6.tar.gz bug reports: autogen-users at the lists dot SourceForge net domain bug archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=7034 maintainer: Bruce Korb - bkorb at the usual GNU domain _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
