There is a manual section in the coccinelle git repository. Would it be possible to use that instead? We could disassociate it from our repository, so that it wouldn't get overwritten when we release a new version.
julia On Tue, 24 May 2011, 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. > > 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, > -- > Francis Galiegue, [email protected] > "It seems obvious [...] that at least some 'business intelligence' > tools invest so much intelligence on the business side that they have > nothing left for generating SQL queries" (Stéphane Faroult, in "The > Art of SQL", ISBN 0-596-00894-5) > _______________________________________________ > Cocci mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.diku.dk/mailman/listinfo/cocci > (Web access from inside DIKUs LAN only) >
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