[Autogen-announce] GNU AutoGen Version 5.18.6/AutoOpts Version 41.1

[Bruce K. <bk...@gn...>]

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 5.18.6 - September, 2015
NEWS entries since the last release:

* {AG,CL,GD}exe environment variables may be set to force
   bootstrapping with a particular release.
* MAN_PAGE_DATE can be used with various man page docs to
   override the current date (default).
* project may now be bootstrapped and built in the source
   directory with no ill effect.
* AutoGen as a daemon will never happen.  Last vestiges gone.
* templates may now obtain the most recent source modification
   time with "(max-file-time)"

AutoGen home:    http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
primary ftp:     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.6/
.tar.gz:         ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.6/autogen-5.18.6.tar.gz
.tar.xz:         ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.6/autogen-5.18.6.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