GNU AutoGen/AutoOpts is a two-part project that serves two separate purposes and 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 command line option parser consisting of a set of AutoGen templates and a run time library that nearly eliminates the hassle of managing, parsing and documenting program options. New in 5.8 - December, 2005 Here are the 'NEWS' entries since the last release * GNU AutoGen now builds against Guile 1.7.x * Fixed a small timing hole where the read from the read end of the output pipe of the server shell can fail. (The read is retried.) * Eliminated the configure code that symlinked all the sources into the build directory. * Added a macro for testing mmap failure to accommodate a picky compiler. Avoided an mmap seg fault that occurs on a few platforms. * The minor version number is being bumped. There is a new (albeit tiny) feature being added to the syntax. See the doc on the pseudo-macro. * Fixed a bug wherein out-of-order definitions could get mistyped causing various catastrophic results. AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel-5.8/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel-5.8/autogen-5.8.tar.gz library project: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libopts/rel27.0/ bug reports: autogen-users at the 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 <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
