2 This is the "feisty meow® concerns" codebase top folder.
6 Feisty Meow Concerns Ltd. is a small software shop that concentrates on
7 building high quality, portable, open source projects in a variety of
8 languages (primarily bash, perl, python, C++, and Java). Here are some
9 highlights of our main products:
11 Bookmark Processing Tools - can take a mozilla bookmark file or arbitrary
12 web page and extract all the links out of it, building a csv database of
13 web links. Using that database, a variety of output formats are
14 provided, including one that outputs a mozilla bookmark file again.
15 The most useful feature is probably the marks checker that operates on
16 our csv format and that locates all unreachable links in the file and
19 CROMP protocol - supports transmission of objects across the network and
20 provides a platform independent method for RPC and other types of
23 Octopus design pattern - the underpinning of the CROMP protocol. An octopus
24 has an arbitrary number of tentacles (no, not just eight) which are each
25 responsible for consuming a different type of object (or datum).
27 Fast Templates and Portable Abstractions - the class libraries of Feisty Meow
28 provide numerous different data structures and programming language
29 abstractions (like threads and state machines). There are also some
30 fairly ancient templates (in use since late 80s) which in many cases
31 perform faster than their STL analogues.
33 CLAM System - Feisty Meow is the home site of the CLAM makefile system. The
34 CLAM system is a flexible and extensible method for building C++ and
35 C# files using makefiles.
40 Feisty Meow® Concerns codebase comprises some but probably not all of several projects that
41 have come before. These include the Twain.COM library scripts, the Yeti / YetiCode library
42 scripts, the HOOPLE 1 and HOOPLE 2 C++ Codebases, the Fred Huffhines open source LSL scripts,
43 the CLAM build system, and a variety of other efforts.
47 Directories and files of interest here...
50 Stores the script files that we use a lot. These are usually written in interpreted
51 languages, such as bash and perl. These were the core of the YetiCode scripts library.
54 Source for the basic modules of the Feisty Meow® codebase. This includes generic
55 data structures, useful utilities, and the like. This hierarchy, plus octopi and graphiq,
56 formed the major parts of hoople1 and hoople2.
59 The library of LSL scripts for osgrid and Second Life written by the avatar named Fred
60 Huffhines. Fred Huffhines is a regular contributor and a well-loved member of our
61 development team. He also happens to be a fictional sock-puppet for adventuring around
62 the grids, but a lot of code has been written in his name. We are going to release the
63 full corpus of the Huffhines work over time.
66 Octopus design pattern and CROMP protocol reference implementations. Assorted applications
70 Some files considered critical to the operations of Feisty Meow Concerns Ltd. This includes
71 the database of fortunes used by the Nechung Oracle Program.
74 Assorted documentation files for Feisty Meow and a code-scanning documentation generator
78 Some files that show how to get work done with Feisty Meow or that show how to do certain
79 tasks in different scripting / programming languages.
82 Our burgeoning Java libraries. Not much to see here yet, but there is some code piling
83 up for these that we will try to release soon.
86 Some example bundles for Java OSGi. These may eventually fill out with real material,
87 but currently they are just tracking the investigation we did into creating bundles and
91 Machinery for getting releases out the door, including the generated files such as binaries
92 and build system tools.
95 GUI tools and components, somewhat busted or just absent right now.
98 Source code specifically for web programming and building sites. Mainly a few javascript
103 Notable Prerequisites for Using the Feisty Meow® codebase:
105 Software required to compile under Linux:
107 A few free source libraries (see "building.txt" for more information).
109 Software required to compiler under MS-windows:
110 The free Microsoft compiler should build the codebase but it is untested.
111 The full version of MS Visual Studio 2010 (version 10) is supported.
112 --but this has fallen into disrepair.
113 Gnu C++ should compile the codebase but it is also untested recently.
117 More information is available at the official site http://feistymeow.org