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Re: GNU AutoGen Version 5.11.8/AutoOpts Version 35.0
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Bruce Korb |
Subject: |
Re: GNU AutoGen Version 5.11.8/AutoOpts Version 35.0 |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:01:28 -0800 |
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Woops. I snafu-ed the release.
Please accept 5.11.8 in its stead.
On 03/07/11 14:05, Bruce Korb wrote:
> 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 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
>
> New in 5.11.8 - March, 2011
>
> Here are the 'NEWS' entries since the last release
>
> * *Really* cope with Guile version number 2.0.
> Some interfaces were "accidentally" removed between
> version 1.9 and 2.0.
>
> * Option argument types of "time and date" have been added
> to the current support for time duration arguments.
>
>
> AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
> primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.11.8/
> .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.11.8/autogen-5.11.8.tar.gz
> bug reports: autogen-users at the lists dot SourceForge net domain
> bug archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=7034
> maintainer: Bruce Korb - bkorb at the usual GNU domain