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From: [email protected] (Sriram Srinivasan)
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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Automatic code generator
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Date: 6 Jun 1996 13:28:51 GMT
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Someone asked about a code generator recently, so I dug up something
from my "pet projects" repository.

I have uploaded "Jeeves1.0.tar.gz" to CPAN.

The README file is attached below.

-Sriram


Jeeves is a very flexible application code generator. Its design
is extremely simple, but thanks to perl (perl 5), it packs quite
a punch.

The convenient thing about Jeeves is that unlike other code generators
I have seen, it does not prescribe a specification language - if you
have a parser for it, you can automatically generate a ton of code.
What code do you generate? Again, Jeeves leaves that up to you - you
fill in a template, and it does the rest.

If the above was not clear, then I recommend you read doc/jeeves.ps.
It gives a fair amount of detail about code generation and the way
Jeeves is structured .  I don't have any time at all right now to create
a reasonable user manual; I do hope to fulfil this gap in the
not-too-distant-future.

Meanwhile,

1. Read the document above. It does contain most of the details.

2. In the examples/oo directory, assuming you are running csh,
  type "source run", and if it works for you , you should
  see *.C files. Compare that to the template.
  The example is explained in Jeeves.ps.

3. jeeves -h gives the usage.

I have tons of examples, but unfortunately I can't give them away
because the specification languages in those examples are somewhat
proprietary, and themselves would require too much documentation.

Suffice it to say that Jeeves is powerful enough to easily handle
automatic code generation off of CORBA IDL files. Again, I'd love
to make this public, but at this point I'd get into legal trouble
with my employer if I do that.

Please let me know if you find Jeeves useful. There are NO
copyright restrictions - do what you want with it.

-Sriram
([email protected]) - June 1996

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