Today I released stubgen 2.06, the first release since 1998.
stubgen is a C++ development tool that keeps code files in sync with their associated headers. When it finds a member function declaration in a header file that doesn’t have a corresponding implementation, it creates an empty skeleton with descriptive comment headers.
Last week Raphael Assenat sent me a message suggesting two new command-line flags to customize the output to his liking. He included very clean patch to implement the feature and his code worked perfectly. He even included manpage updates in his diff! This is exactly the way Open Source is supposed to work.
I took the opportunity to remove copies of getopt() and basename() that were bundled with the distribution since they’re found in any modern libc. Doing so also let me change the license from GNU to BSD, since I no longer want to contribute to RMS’s zealotry.
stubgen’s parser does not conform to the latest C++ standard. It’s a gigantic hack that I created when I was teaching myself lex/yacc. Hacking the yacc grammar further probably isn’t a good idea, since C++ isn’t an LALR(1) language anyways. It really oughta be rewritten to use a real C++ parser library.