Tuesday, September 26, 2006

New website

The ASF+SDF Meta-Environment is going 'Open Source'. The system has been released with an open source license ever since its first release in 2000. However, we now actively promote it as an open source project. The reasons are:
  • Some components have reached a stability that requires only minor maintenance. This means that such components may be maintained easily since all the requirements are clear and fixed.
  • More and more sub-components of the Meta-Environment are being used by other systems, and thus more programmers naturally help with the development effort.
  • More and more users and systems use SDF for parsing.
  • More and more users use ASF+SDF for their source code analysis or transformation tooling, which warrants an effort in documentation targeted at specific usage scenarios.

The following measures have been taken:

If you would like to contribute to either our documentation or our sources, please contact meta-devel-list@cwi.nl.