It's quite final, and super easy to change and to read.
It seems we want to use namespaces/shared implementations soon to allow
using defs. In our case, we transform the version in a particular way,
which is easy enough, yet I'd like to use it to make the system more
powerful.
That way, we read the data files only once, but produce all the outputs
we need. Together with a powerful makefile, we have a multi-invocation
with proper depedency tracking.
Everything will be regenerated though, even though just a single input
template file changed.
The alternative would be to have one dependency and invocation per
input dependency, but that will read the entire json each time.
Let's see what's faster/more useful during development.
Now we can write mako templates, with a similar feature set as
pyratemp. Except that its syntax is nicer, allows to do everything
and that there is syntax highlight support.
Let's see how it fares
After minor modifications to pyratemp, it certainly does the job.
What it **does NOT** do:
* multiple outputs per template/command invocation
* NICE embedding of code (like GSL can)
It will do the job nonetheless, but mako might be worth a look
As GSL failed in my first attempt to get the example program going,
it might be better to try something else before too much time is spend.
Fortunately, pyratemp **seems** to be something usable, and even if not,
it might be possible to make it usable as it's just a 'simple'
python script that I might be able to understand, if need be.
Added all prerequisite programs in binary for easier use.
Make is now implemented top-level, and is not expected to do too much
work actually. It will, however, keep track of all required
gsl invocation and make sure calls are efficient by not having
to rebuild everything every time. That's what make does, anyway ;)
That way, it will remain clearly documented how to do this, and allow
for efficient calling of gsl as well, at some point.
Of course it will be a little more difficult for us to know all
dependencies, but gsl could generate these as well for us, I suppose.
