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20f3252892 Upgrade: down with typename!!
Yet another chainsaw massacre.

One of the most obnoxious annoyances with C++ metaprogramming
is the need to insert `typename` and `template` qualifiers into
most definitions, to help the compiler to cope with the syntax,
which is not context-free.

The recent standards adds several clarifications, so that most
of these qualifiers are redundant now, at least at places where
it is unambiguously clear that only a type can be given.

GCC already supports most of these relaxing rules
(Clang unfortunately lags way behind with support of newer language features...)
2025-07-06 01:19:08 +02:00
806db414dd Copyright: clarify and simplify the file headers
* Lumiera source code always was copyrighted by individual contributors
 * there is no entity "Lumiera.org" which holds any copyrights
 * Lumiera source code is provided under the GPL Version 2+

== Explanations ==
Lumiera as a whole is distributed under Copyleft, GNU General Public License Version 2 or above.
For this to become legally effective, the ''File COPYING in the root directory is sufficient.''

The licensing header in each file is not strictly necessary, yet considered good practice;
attaching a licence notice increases the likeliness that this information is retained
in case someone extracts individual code files. However, it is not by the presence of some
text, that legally binding licensing terms become effective; rather the fact matters that a
given piece of code was provably copyrighted and published under a license. Even reformatting
the code, renaming some variables or deleting parts of the code will not alter this legal
situation, but rather creates a derivative work, which is likewise covered by the GPL!

The most relevant information in the file header is the notice regarding the
time of the first individual copyright claim. By virtue of this initial copyright,
the first author is entitled to choose the terms of licensing. All further
modifications are permitted and covered by the License. The specific wording
or format of the copyright header is not legally relevant, as long as the
intention to publish under the GPL remains clear. The extended wording was
based on a recommendation by the FSF. It can be shortened, because the full terms
of the license are provided alongside the distribution, in the file COPYING.
2024-11-17 23:42:55 +01:00
39d614f55f Library: Testsuite maintenance
- SchedulerStress_test simply takes too long to complete (~4 min)
  and is thus aborted by the testrunner. Add a switch to allow for
  a quick smoke test.

- SchedulerCommutator_test aborts due to an unresolved design problem,
  which I marked as failure

- add some convenience methods for passing arguments to tests
2024-11-16 00:38:57 +01:00
c7d157e295 Library: integrate generic min/max function
...built while investigating type deduction problems on PtrDerefIter
...also allow PtrDerefIter to work with std::unique_ptr
2020-03-08 02:05:39 +01:00
155bf95ce5 Doxygen: magically insert a reference to the test class
this bit of Sed magic relies on the fact that we happen to write
the almost correct class name of a test into the header comment.

HOWTO:
for F in $(find tests -type f \( -name '*.cpp' \)  -exec egrep -q '§§TODO§§' {} \; -print);
  do sed -r -i -e'
    2          {h;x;s/\s+(.+)\(Test\).*$/\\ref \1_test/;x};
    /§§TODO§§/ {s/§§TODO§§//;G;s/\n//}'
    $F;
done
2017-02-22 03:17:18 +01:00
24b3bec4be Doxygen: prepare all unit tests for inclusion in the documentation
Doxygen will only process files with a @file documentation comment.
Up to now, none of our test code has such a comment, preventing the
cross-links to unit tests from working.

This is unfortunate, since unit tests, and even the code comments there,
can be considered as the most useful form of technical documentation.
Thus I'll start an initiative to fill in those missing comments automatically
2017-02-22 01:54:20 +01:00
48e9b7594a Doxygen: identify all files lacking a @file comment
reason is, only files with a @file comment will be processed
with further documentation commands. For this reason, our Doxygen
documentation is lacking a lot of entries.

HOWTO:
find src -type f \( -name '*.cpp' -or -name '*.hpp' \) -not -exec egrep -q '\*.+@file' {} \; -print -exec sed -i -r -e'\_\*/_,$ { 1,+0 a\
\
\
/** @file §§§\
 ** TODO §§§\
 */
}' {} \;
2016-11-03 18:20:10 +01:00
974c670d41 fix **** in doxygen comments
to make them stand out more prominently, some entity comments
where started with a line of starts. Unfortunately, doxygen
(and javadoc) only recogise comments which are started exactly
with /**

This caused quite some comments to be ignored by doxygen.
Credits to Hendrik Boom for spotting this problem!

A workaround is to end the line of stars with *//**
2013-10-24 23:06:36 +02:00
727fdd8691 add convenience shortcut to access a collection's last element
actually two accessor functinons first() and last(),
which automatically pick a proper implementation,
either by iteration or by direct access
2013-01-13 16:49:20 +01:00