Re: [Codemill-spec] Re: proposed -L option

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

Hi All,

John Lindal wrote:

> >> > 6) The generated code must be under 'no license'.
> >>
> >> I agree with what you mean by this statement, but it made me think of
> >> something.  Most of the code I write is under LGPL and the GPL.  For
> >> every new bloody file I create, I have to copy/paste the info about the
> >> license into the top of the file.  I also put a little header with a
> >> description of the file and some macros that CVS expands.  It would be
> >> really helpfull if I could some how point to a file containing the
> >> software license/header info and CodeMill could copy that into the
> >> created file.  I can;t think of an intuitive way to work this into the
> >> syntax...
> >
> > This is a very good idea, We could add a -L option to codemill that would
> > add a license template at the top of the generated code,
>
> Why not just make this part of the template file that has already been
> added to the spec?  One would specify what should be in the header of the
> source file, the header of the header file, same for the footers, and then
> the format of the different code snippets that Code Mill creates.  One
> would probably only need to have one variable, the date, since names, etc.
> would be entered by hand (once) into each peronalized template files.

Yes , but I think it is important to keep the license template and the code
template separate.
Since someone could have the GNU coding style with the BSD license etc...
( I guess this is what you meant )

Then people can add there own headers/footers in with codemill.
These can have CVS macros/ emacs settings etc. in.


if only one set variable is needed then it's not to bad,
I don't want have unique / different variables is each template


I would also like to propose a system of finding templates.
codemill would first search the current directory ( or a specified one )
Then codemill would go into it's own template directory like
/usr/local/codemill/templates/cplusplus/ etc...
Maybe if a verbose mode is set it will tell where it got it's templates etc...

Thanks,
Richard.