5.1 Features of ALLPROSE

• ALLPROSE builds the library of the project via Makefiles. Usually there is no need to write any new Makefile or to change anything in the Makefiles that are provided by ALLPROSE.
• It is usually enough to write categories and domains that form the library. ALLPROSE figures out in which order they have to be compiled. See tools/dependencies.pl.nw for more details.
• ALLPROSE is a developing project itself, but ALLPROSE is reasonably separate from the Aldor code. By not altering files of the ALLPROSE distribution, it is even possible to update ALLPROSE to a newer version in a developing Aldor library project, cf. Section 28.12.
• ALLPROSE uses Noweb as a literate programming system. Writing Noweb files is basically the same as writing LATEX files that contain code chunks in environments that look like

  <<Name of a Code Chunk>>=     Arbitrary code comes here   @

  The documentation can be written using the full power of LATEX. ALLPROSE builds on the hyperref package to produce hyperlinks inside the resulting documentation. See Sections 8 and 11 or look at the sources of ALLPROSE.

• ALLPROSE can produce a .dvi, .ps, .pdf, and .html form of the documentation of your library.
• ALLPROSE encourages to write test suites. Writing a testsuite becomes trivial. ALLPROSE supports the AldorUnit system by collecting the signatures from the test files, building a wrapper test/TestSuite.as file, and compiling and executing this file.
• ALLPROSE supports the inverse search feature of newer DVIVIEWERs. Developing the project library is done by having open both, a DVIVIEWER and an editor. Clicking on the text in the DVIVIEWER will automatically open the corresponding file in the editor of your choice and place the cursor to the nearest paragraph that corresponds to the mouse pointer. See Section 24.3.9 for more details.
• ALLPROSE is prepared to support the error search facility of Emacs and XEmacs, i. e., if the Aldor compiler reports an error, Emacs jumps to the error position in the source file (with extension .as.nw), see Section 9.3.3.
• ALLPROSE allows colored documentation output. See the MAKE target colored in Section 28.10 for more details.