[Pmk-users] new stuff in Pre Make Kit

[Damien C. <mip...@us...>]

Hi everybody,
i thought i had to make a little post about recent changes done in the 
current repository.
Those who follow cvs commits could have seen some new stuff imported 
since Easter holidays. This stuff is adding something that has been 
discussed many times about PMK : the pmkscan tool now have both options 
'p' and 'm'. The first being the traditional pmkfile generation from 
sources and the second being the new *makefile* generation option.

YES, you've read about MAKEFILE generation. I still think that makefiles 
have to be polished by hand but it seems that we can help by generating 
templates that will be almost usable without so much further changes.

As an example you could look at the attached example. You will notice 
that the object list are not yet striped. This is a work in progress in 
parallel of the C file parsing engine. I hope to finish it as soon as 
possible. There is also some cosmetics too add like for example some 
formating on the line length. All this should be ok in the next snapshot.

The next step is an idea that comes from Robin Rowe (of cinepaint 
project). The idea is to help simplify the install/deinstall process. 
First we discussed about generating scripts to do such things. But with 
the time i came to another similar concept : pmkinstall will have a 
specific option that will take a file as argument. This file would be in 
the same spirit as the pmkfile but for install purposes. This will allow 
to get rid of shell scripts to a cleaner solution.

In the same time i'm trying to provide more documentation especially for 
developpement of PMK. I'm already looking at doxygen but other 
suggestions are welcome.

I'm also thinking about providing an alternative to the 'make' tool 
always in the same spirit of PMk. But don't enjoy too quickly as it is 
planed after the release of PMK 1.0.

Have fun,
Damien