Re: Announce: pyexpander - a macro processor also capable of replacing msi

[Goetz Pfeiffer <Goetz.Pfeiffer@helmholtz-berlin.de>]

Hi Andrew,

pyexpander is a different approach to macro expansion compared to pymsi. It can be used to replace msi, but is more generic in it's design. It could also be used instead of m4 or as a sourcecode preprocessor.
However, I still support Pymsi with respect to bugfixes or possible feature requests.

Greetings,,

Goetz Pfeiffer

Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov> schrieb:

Hi Goetz,

On 2011-06-17 Goetz Pfeiffer wrote:
> I would like to announce pyexpander, a powerful macro processor based
> on python. Instead of simple macro replacement it offers evaluation of
> arbitrary python expressions and execution of python code.
> 
> It can also be used as an replacement for the EPICS msi tool.
> 
> Here is a link to the documentation:
> http://pyexpander.sourceforge.net/

Is this intended to replace pymsi?  I just added a pyexpander link to the 
EPICS Extensions page, should I also move pymsi into the deprecated area, or 
do you intend to continue maintaining both?

Thanks,

- Andrew
-- 
Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
replacing it with something that almost works, but
costs less.
-- Roger Needham

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