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 5.18.5 - May, 2015 NEWS entries since the last release: * Guile 1.6 is now obsolete. 1.7/8 or newer from now on. Fixed issues with Guile managed locale string processing. * more Guile-config somersaults config/misc.def: sometimes, "pkg-config --cflags-only-I" yields multiple directories for Guile and that incantation is the only way to find libguile/version.h and that header is the only way to determine the micro version and the micro version is the best way to check for certain types of breakage. (Testing is too convoluted.) * for-each handler functions may now be able to free (or not) the file text via the "handler-frees" attribute. AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.5/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.5/autogen-5.18.5.tar.gz .tar.xz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.5/autogen-5.18.5.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 -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
