What is this?
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The FrameProcessor fp is a reuse tool for source code in any
text-based programming language (or other kinds of text).

Project Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/frameprocessor

What are frames?
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Frames are program parts in any programming language
that can be reused.
A frame contains program code and frame commands (see [Bas96]).
With fp, you can generate code, even whole applications
(Software Product Lines), from common parts.

I tried to keep fp as simple as possible, so that it offers
a minimal set of the most important/useful features only.

A quick start:
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You can download the latest version here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55574 .
Windows users without Python installed should download the zip file,
others must have Python installed and can download the tar.gz file.

After unpacking, you can try a helloworld example
by changing to the examples/c directory.
Under Linux etc. with Python installed, call
'python ../../fp.py example1.frame' ,
or 'python ../../fp.py example2.frame' .
 (you can also perform an fp self-test with
  python tests/alltests.py).
Under Windows without Python, call
..\..\bin\fp example1.frame ,
or ..\..\bin\fp example2.frame.

After each fp call, see the contents of the file main.c
which was generated e.g. by calling 'more main.c' .
 

Have fun!

Reference:
[Bas96] Paul G. Basset, Framing Software Reuse,
        Prentice Hall, 1996
 

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