[Codemill-spec] A Welcome to the Code Mill mailing list

[Richard K. <rk...@sw...>]

Hi All,

Sorry I have not got things going , customers have been jumping down my
throat this week :-(

Just to get things started I would like to repeat some of the things
that happened on the Code Crusader mailing list.

Richard Kolb Wrote :
>I think it was David that pointed out that a code generator like
codemill ,
>could generate code that is under license of the generator. ( not very
nice!
>)
>
>Do you think we can add a exception to the license to say , all code
>generated should be under 'no license.' ?

To which John Lindel Replied,
>
>I thought that BSD didn't enforce this?  If it does, you could switch
to
>the Artistic License that Perl uses.  I think that is even less
>restrictive.

As far as I saw there have been a few flame wars about this,
so maybe we should go for the Artistic License  as John Suggested.

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As some one said ( I can't remember who )
What should code mill be developed in , ie C,C++,STL,libarys etc...

Is suggest using no library's since the project is quite small and wont
need things like threads etc..

I would also suggest using C++ , we don't need anything fancy , just
something maintainable and simple.

When it comes STL , I think this is really going overboard. Unless I'm
missing some thing.

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Requirements (according to Richard anyway )

1) Create a class from scratch.
2) Derive a class from a base class / classes.
3) Add a member variable with a given visibility.
4) Add a member function with a given visibility and attributes like
virtual/const etc.
5) The ability to have coding style templates to suit different styles
and a custom user defined style.
6) The generated code must be under 'no license'.
7) The interface to Code Mill should a command line app, which can be
used by Code Crusader etc.
8) The command line interface should be easy enough to use by a user on
the command line.


The command line interface should properly look +- like this :
"codemill -c NewClass -d DeriveClass -I./ -t template.5 -o output.cc
output.h"
Where -c is the class to create
-d for the class to derive from
-I for the search paths
-t coding standard to use.
-o the output files to create the class in.

This would look for file template.5 in the codemill template directory
and
generate a class to the users coding standards.

I'm sure there are many more requirements so please add/change mine.

Thanks,
Richard.