PSARC/2008/315 - autogen and guile

[Irene Huang]

Hi, all 

Adding Halton Huo to the thread since he'd like to comment. 
Halton, now you can comment by replying this email so that everyone can
see :).

--Irene
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:12 -0700, John Fischer wrote:
> All,
> 
> I attached the wrong proposal document for the email notification.
> The correct proposal is attached.
> 
> Sorry about the confusion,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> John Fischer wrote:
> > PSARC,
> > 
> > I am sponsoring this fast track for Steve Xue of the Core
> > technologies team in Beijing.  The case directory contains
> > this proposal and the autogen and guile man pages.
> > 
> > The project is integrating autogen and guile into a Minor release
> > of Solaris.  Autogen is a tool designed to simplify the creation
> > and maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious
> > text.  Guile is a library designed to help programmers create flexible
> > applications.  The interfaces are declared Uncommitted with the
> > exception of two directories within /usr/share which are declared
> > Project Private.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > John
> > 
> plain text document attachment (proposal.txt)
> Summary
> =======
>    Autogen[1] 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. 
> 
>    This utility can also be called a code generator, which are programs that
>    automatically generate high level code (e.g. C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python,
>    Ruby, etc.).  These tools range in size and complexity from simple code
>    parsers to fully featured class and tier builders. 
> 
>    Because the implementation of Autogen used guile[2](GNU's extension
>    language) and guile is not available now in SFW consolidation, so we decide
>    to merge guile porting work together into this case.
> 
>    Guile[2] is a library designed to help programmers create flexible
>    applications.  Using Guile in an application allows programmers to write
>    plug-ins or modules so the application fit their needs.
>  
>    Autogen-5.9 will be integrated into the SFW consolidation as part of this
>    proposal, and will be installed as SUNWautogen.
> 
>    Guile-1.8.4 will be integrated into the SFW consolidation as part of this
>    proposal, and will be installed as SUNWguile
> 
>    This project requests a minor release binding. 
> 
> 
> Dependencies
> ============
> 
>    libltdl    	ltdl - GNU libtool dlopen wrapper 		PSARC/2007/557
>    libgmp	GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library	PSARC/2008/166
> 
> 
> Interfaces
> ==========
> 
>    (1) Guile related:
> 
>    Exported Interfaces		Classification	Comment
>    -------------------		--------------	-------
>    SUNWguile			Uncommitted	Package
>    /usr/bin/guile		Uncommitted	Command
>    /usr/bin/guile-snarf		Uncommitted	Command
>    /usr/bin/guile-confi		Uncommitted	Command
>    /usr/bin/guile-tools		Uncommitted	Command
> 
>    /usr/lib/libguile.so 	Uncommitted 	Guile library symbol link
>    /usr/lib/libguile.so.17.1.2 	Uncommitted 	guile library
> 
>    /usr/share/guile/		Project Private	Scheme scripts
> 
>    /usr/include/libguile.h	Uncommitted	Header files
>    /usr/include/libguile	Uncommitted	Header files
>    /usr/include/guile/		Uncommitted	Header files
> 
>    Imported Interfaces 		Classification	Comment
>    -------------------		--------------	-------
>    /usr/lib/libltdl.so		Uncommitted	PSARC/2007/557
>    /usr/lib/libgmp.so		Committed	PSARC/2008/166
> 
>    (2) Autogen related:
> 
>    Exported Interfaces		Classification	Comment
>    -------------------		--------------	-------
>    SUNWautogen			Uncommitted	Package
>    /usr/bin/autogen		Uncommitted	Command
>    /usr/bin/autoopts-config 	Uncommitted	Command
>    /usr/bin/columns		Uncommitted	Command
>    /usr/bin/getdefs		Uncommitted	Command
>    /usr/bin/xml2ag 		Uncommitted	Command
> 
>    /usr/lib/libguileopts.so	Uncommitted	Libguileopts library symbol
>    						link
>    /usr/lib/libguileopts.so.0.0.1
>    				Uncommitted	Libguileopts library
> 
>    /usr/share/autogen/		Project Private	TPL scripts
> 
>    /usr/lib/libopts.so.25.3.0   
> 				Uncommitted	Library used by libguileopts.so and autogen
> 
>    /usr/include/auotopts/	Uncommitted	Header files
> 
>    Imported Interfaces 		Classification	Comment
>    -------------------		--------------	-------
>    /usr/lib/libguile.so 	Uncommitted 	Guile library symbol link
> 
> 
> Reference Documents
> ===================
>    [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
>    [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
> 
>    RFE ID# 6672584 for autogen
>    RFE ID# 6672583 for guile
>