| New AutoGen Released |
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By jonas, Section News
Posted on Thu Feb 7th, 2002 at 12:22:31 GMT |
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Normally, we would not post notices about new software releases. For those from the GNU project, you can see http://www.gnu.org/server/new-software.html for that information. But every now and then, there is a release of a piece of software that is noteworthy. AutoGen is one such because it isn't very well known, but provides some interesting features.
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| AutoGen in meant to provide the tools necessary for keeping different parts of a software project together when they relate to each other. One such example is command line arguments to a program. Information about which command line arguments can be used is often found in four different places; the program function that parses the options, the text displayed to the user when called with ``--help'', the manual page and the info documentation. To help this, AutoGen includes the tool AutoOpts which, from a template file containing definitions for the command line options generate C code to handle the options and a text suitable for inclusion in the manual page. If you're interested in the software, please visit their web page at http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/autogen.html, and I'm sure that they would love to hear more about what uses people find for AutoGen. |
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