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-sofort: portable software project template
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-
-motivation
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-* take care of the elements that are common to all
- (of my) cross-platform C projects, and which, for
- the most part, do not (or at least should not)
- contain any project-specific bits:
- --> the build system;
- --> the argv parser and usage screen generator;
- --> the initial program driver;
- --> and initial front-end utility.
-* zero external dependencies: the new project is
- generated from the template project using basic
- shell utilities, specifically cp, grep, and sed.
-
-build system
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-* the project is conceived as a library with
- an accompanying front-end utility.
-* the configure script is fast and skinny,
- yet comprehensive.
-* unified logic for native and cross builds.
-* unified logic for in-tree and out-of-tree builds.
-
-driver
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-* the provided argv parser and usage screen generator
- is powerful, flexible, and thread-safe; moreover,
- it allows for a program driver that is entirely
- independent of the chosen skin.
-
-skins
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-* one benefit of the above design is that it allows the
- front-end utility to have several distinct skins at
- virtually no effort.
-
-modularity
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-* the distinct driver and unit context, in combination
- with the thread-safe argv parser, render the front-end
- utility's inclusion in a multi-call binary trivial.
-
-extras
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-* the template provides the skeleton of an application
- that may accept one or more files for its input, then
- operate on each input file individually.