- reorganise the navigation tab structure
- place all further index lists into a common "Index" tab
- include a list of concepts
- remove the various "member" sub-tabs, these are not helpful
- the "modules" tab is now called "topics" (since C++ has now Modules!)
- generally re-sync DoxygenLayout.xml with a current pristine template
- comb though the Doxygen Warnings and fix a lot of small problems
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...)
* 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.
Problems in `Rational_test` were caused by `#include' reorderings regarding ''rational'' and ''intgral'' numbers.
The actual root cause is the fact that `FSecs` is only a typedef,
which prevents us from providing a string conversion for rational numbers without ambiguity
from now on, we'll have dedicated individual translation units (*cpp)
for each distinct interface proxy. All of these will include the
interfaceproxy.hpp, which now holds the boilerplate part of the code
and *must not be included* in anything else than interfac proxy
translation units. The reason is, we now *definie* (with external linkage)
implementations of the facade::Link ctor and dtor for each distinct
type of interface proxy. This allows to decouple the proxy definition code
from the service implementation code (which is crucial for plug-ins
like the GUI)
The recently rewritten lib::Depend front-end for service dependencies,
together with the configuration as lib::DependInject::ServiceInstance
provides all the necessary features and is even threadsafe.
Beyond that, the expectation is that also the instantiation of the
interface proxies can be simplified. The proxies themselves however
need to be hand-written as before
