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,


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