Hello, On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 14:07 +0200, Francis Galiegue wrote: > Hello list, > > So, in light of the usefulness of Coccinelle, but of the aridity of > /E?BNF/, I have decided to create a git repository to host a > Coccinelle manual: > > https://github.com/fge/coccinelle-manual > > It has just been introduced with an introduction which is but a text > file, and an example C file with which a few features of the > Coccinelle SmPL language can already be demonstrated. I don't even > know as of yet the final format of the source files for this manual, > where it will really be hosted, how it will be built in a user > readable form, etc.
Nice idea, don't hesitate to use any element you want from my text : http://home.regit.org/technical-articles/coccinelle-for-the-newbie/ BR, > > But as I mentioned in another mail, EBNF is just NOT the way to go in > order to get people to begin to use Coccinelle on a larger scale -- > people who read and _write_ C are orders of magnitude more numerous > than people who can read EBNF - let alone write it. > > Don't expect to find anything useful on that manual just yet: I will > only really start to feed this manual with examples in a few hours, > but if you feel like forking, working on it, and submitting pull > requests, I'll be happy to merge it all, and duly credit authors along > the way. Git preserves authorship anyway. > > In fact, expect me to bugger the list even more from now on, or the > IRC channel, with questions as this manual is slowly completed ;) And > if you also have ideas as to what format should be used, what tools to > use to build the manual, I welcome ideas on this front as well. Text > files just don't cut it. > > Cheers, _______________________________________________ Cocci mailing list [email protected] http://lists.diku.dk/mailman/listinfo/cocci (Web access from inside DIKUs LAN only)
