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 There are several other examples embedded in AutoGen: A finite state machine generator, string name to enumeration value conversions, and bit map and bit mask management, to name a few. New in 5.17.2 - February, 2013 NEWS entries since the last release: * AutoOpts translatability improvements. The translatable strings are now inserted into a dummy procedure in the option processing code file. These can be extracted by xgettext, translated and then displayed when the libopts library encounters any processing issues. Also, if the client code provides the full usage text string, it will be broken up into "paragraphs" that are easier for the translators to do their jobs. * "for-each" main procedures may now be specified as processing standard input as a data file instead of being replacement operands. * configuration fixes. * i18n updates -- the translatable strings were not very. The stuff was reworked so that usage text can be constructed in English, specified as the full usage text and then readily translated a paragraph at a time. These paragraphs are also emitted into an xgettext extractable form so translators have matching text to work from. * Autogen tries to catch most signals. This is done so that it can emit appropriate messages before dying. However, "SIGPROF" is often signaled extremely early, before initialization is complete. Cleanup is no longer performed before initialzation is complete. "SIGPROF" is exempted from capture. * Doxyfication: the attribute "addtogroup" is now recognized in the option definitions. This will cause the emitted code to be surrounded by doxygen "addtogroup"-ing comments. AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.17.2/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.17.2/autogen-5.17.2.tar.gz .tar.xz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.17.2/autogen-5.17.2.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 _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <[email protected]> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
