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liberty
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'liberty' is a pseudolibrary largely consisting of reusable C code for my
various projects. I used to copy-paste large swaths of it with minimal changes,
and it slowly became awfully painful to synchronize. The project can be thought
of as a successor to my other C library, libxtnd.
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You are supposed to import it as a git submodule and include the main source
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file directly everywhere you need it, setting feature flags as appropriate.
Everything is declared "static". I have come to the conclusion that this style
of C programming suits me the best, as it allows me to nearly forget about the
mess that are header files.
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The API is intentionally unstable, which allows for easy refactoring.
All development is done on Linux, but other POSIX-compatible operating systems
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should be generally supported as well. They have an extremely low priority,
however, and I'm not testing them at all, perhaps with the exception of macOS.
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Tools
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This project also hosts a number of supporting scripts written in portable AWK:
asciiman.awk::
A fallback manual page generator for AsciiDoc documents,
motivated by the hugeness of AsciiDoc's and Asciidoctor's dependency trees.
Just like them, it uses the _man_ macro package.
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cmake-parser.awk::
Parses the CMake language to the extent that is necessary to reliably
extract project versions. Its greatest limitation is its inability
to expand variables, which would require a full interpreter.
cmake-dump.awk::
This can be used in conjunction with the previous script to dump CMake
scripts in a normalized format for further processing.
lxdrgen.awk::
Protocol code generator for a variant of XDR,
which is link:libertyxdr.adoc[documented separately].
Successfully employed in https://git.janouch.name/p/xK[xK].
lxdrgen-c.awk::
LibertyXDR backend that builds on top of the C pseudolibrary.
lxdrgen-go.awk::
LibertyXDR backend for Go, supporting _encoding/json_ interfaces. It also
produces optimized JSON marshallers (however, note that the _json.Marshaler_
interface is bound to be underperforming, due to the amount of otherwise
avoidable memory allocations it necessitates).
lxdrgen-mjs.awk::
LibertyXDR backend for Javascript, currently for decoding only.
It cuts a corner by not using BigInts, on par with `JSON.parse()`.
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lxdrgen-swift.awk::
LibertyXDR backend for the Swift programming language.
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Contributing and Support
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Use https://git.janouch.name/p/liberty to report any bugs, request features,
or submit pull requests. `git send-email` is tolerated. If you want to discuss
the project, feel free to join me at ircs://irc.janouch.name, channel #dev.
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Bitcoin donations are accepted at: 12r5uEWEgcHC46xd64tt3hHt9EUvYYDHe9
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License
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This software is released under the terms of the 0BSD license, the text of which
is included within the package along with the list of authors.