Far Gone & Out

Future

Currently I do not really plan to extend this program, as it does exactly what I want it to do, in a reasonably fast way.

Obvious extensions could be to support other programming languages. However, this would make the source much more error prone, so at the moment I do not think this is a good idea. But I suppose Oberon, Modula-2 and Pascal will be supported sometimes - if there is any interest.

Someone suggested to trash string constants by converting them to escape sequences or splitting them at arbitrary positions. But this has several problems: first, it's trivial to devahunz, second, it blows up source code size, and third, it makes it more difficult to apply tools that translate between different character encodings. Finally, hex-escaping ANSI C is a messy issue.

Another feature could be to display some statistics about how many names have been replaced etc.; but nobody really cares about that, so it's something for a rainy weekend.

History

• Fixed --name-length, which refused to accept any value
• Fixed transparency of disabled "Contents" button in navigation bar
• Added CLI option --version

• Fixed two bugs in Vahunz-Tschak when invoked from a device with a blank in its name (like Ram Disk)
• Fixed missing deletion of temporary files in Vahunz-Tschak
• Added keywords for upcoming c9x (ISO C). They have been incorporated into C mode.
• Added keywords for C++ according to a book some guy named Stroustrup wrote, claiming they conform to ANSI - whatever that means. Anyway, don't expect your compiler to care about it.
• Improved Vahunz-Tschak to use java.ignore as default selection in when requesting dignorary in Java mode.
• Improved wording of error messages, in particular when dealing with command line parameters.
• Improved java.ignore to support JDK 1.2.2
• Replaced scan-javadoc.rexx by a compiled scan_javadoc. The corresponding (unvaunzed) source file can be found in the same directory and has been written in - of course - Eiffel (he he).

• Fixed bug in linker options, now ixemul.library is not required anymore
• Added dignorary java.ignore
• Added missing keywords for Java
• Added support for Vahunz-Tschak to create dignoraries
• Added __DATE__, __FILE__, __LINE__ and __TIME__ to C keywords. Before they were stored in the dignorary and might now cause a warning you can ignore if you use the new Vahunz with an old dignorary.
• Changed installation instructions: Vahunz should not be copied to the search path, but the search path should be extended and the whole directory be kept in one piece. This allows you to use Vahunz-Tschak even without Vahunz being located within the search path.
• Recreated C dignoraries using Vahunz-Tschak which adds some names to them.
• Removed possibility to use external keyctionaries as this was only confusing for the user and did not result in anybody sending me update data. Besides, this is now only a problem for C++ users, and those deserve to be punished anyway.

• Added Vahunz-Tschak, an Amiga Installer frontend to make accessing Vahunz easier - only idiots remember command line parameters
• Added pseudo-dignorary empty.ignore. This is only useful when you do not want to use any default dignorary in Vahunz-Tschak, but have to make the file requester happy somehow.
• Added Amiga icons for ReadMe, manual and Vahunz-Tschak
• Fixed bug where --indent and --line were always disabled due to silly default values
• Fixed bug where the code depended on fclose() not modifying errno in case of success. I'm still not sure how this is defined in ANSI C (not that I didn't try to find out). This bug showed when Vahunz aborted without error message after writing the first vahunzed file.
• Slightly extended the amiga.ignore dignorary by some includes I installed on my system recently; nothing really remarkable though...

• Added copyright header to every source file
• Changed the algorithm to create vahunzed names resulting in a slightly shorter binary
• Clarified some facts about --vahunz-length
• Applied a Strip-Tool on the source code
• Fixed a problem in the source code, where an #include <exec/types.h> was outside the #ifdef AMIGA
• Fixed transparency of Kotzhund logo

• Added CLI option --name-length
• Added CLI option --no-unused
• Added CLI option --prefix-file
• Added CLI option --vahunz-length
• Added support for external keyctionaries
• Added auto-detection of programming language
• Added manual chapter Inside Vahunz
• Added manual chapter Beyond Vahunz
• Added source code
• Changed the sequence of character used in vahunzed names.
• Changed help output so that the long form of an option is viewed first
• Fixed The Great Renaming - replacement took place only internally and never reached the output
• Fixed a few typos and flaws in the texts viewed during vahunzation

• Added dignorary concept
• Added CLI option --line.
• Added CLI option --no-warning.
• Added CLI option --random-seed.
• Added CLI option --store.
• Fixed vanishing of linefeeds (\n) if a formfeed (\f) occurred. Now the formfeed is kicked out.
• Fixed enforcer hit when warning about unknown mode was displayed
• Fixed no-memory handler. Actually it was inactive as I forgot to assign it at all.
• Fixed some flaws in the output of --help.
• Reduced memory fragmentation and number of malloc()s.
• Split up manual into several pages and included some use-cases.
• Compiled without DEBUG=LINE, resulting in a shorter binary.
• Documented that --quiet has -q as short form.

• Initial release.