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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MaLa (MacroLanguage) - savannah.gnu
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Rudy Gevaert |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MaLa (MacroLanguage) - savannah.gnu.org |
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Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:41:08 -0400 |
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I asked Loic to handle this project.
Rudy
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:13:53AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
>
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
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> Christian Thaeter <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: other
> Other License: GNU General Public License V2 (not later for now)
>
> No LGPL, reliciensing for closed source projects will be possible for some
> fee (i need money).
>
> Rights will be transfered under the FSF-Europe's "Fiduciary Licence Agreement
> - FLA" to the FSF-Europe (With a non-LGPL clause)
>
>
> Package: MaLa (MacroLanguage)
> System name: mala
> Type: GNU
>
> Description:
> MaLa is a small extendable macro language which can be embedded in
> applications.
>
> MaLa will be implemented natively for different languages:
> 1) C/libhackerlab
> 2) C/glibc
> 3) Standard C++
> 4) Python (maybe)
> 5) Pike (maybe)
> 6) Prolog (likely)
>
> Its main purposes are:
> * Program option parsing much easier than getopt.
> * Loading configfiles.
> * Providing an interactive commandline UI.
> * Scripting support for small system tools.
>
> Theres is a Wiki for design discussions on:
> http://cehteh.homeunix.org/pipawiki/MaLa
> note: currently very incomplete and confusing, will be cleaned up sometime.
>
>
> Other Software Required:
> Depending on the flavour of MaLa some Languages and extra libraries are
> required but most of this dependencies will be optional.
>
> - Tom Lord's alternaive C-Runtime 'libhackerlab'
> - libreadline (optional)
> - Python
> - Pike
>
> Other Comments:
> MaLa will not be hosted on CVS, i use Tom Lord's arch instead.
> When MaLa becomes useable I would like to proprose it as a official
> GNU-Project as a new much better getopt alternative.
>
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