Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MaLa (MacroLanguage) - savannah.gnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

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
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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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