The tarballs are showing a 1 year old age. Date glitch on the FTP site.
They are from today.
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 5.18.9 - May, 2016
NEWS entries since the last release:
* In producing usage text, check more rigorously that
option "values" are really not flag characters.
* Fix error in quoting flag characters in man pages
* unset CGI specific variables for testing
AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.9/.tar.gz:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.9/autogen-5.18.9.tar.gz
.tar.xz:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.9/autogen-5.18.9.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
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