The Planetary Build System (PBS) is a build system that looks up any function or method that you have implemented in software community websites before building the source code into machine code. PBS looks up the documentation comments that you have supplied with your implementation, and shows to you on build how the community answer to that development task would look like. You can mark your implementation as 'reviewed' if you have already integrated the suggestions in your code, or do not care.

The Planetary Build System is called as it is because, if an equivalent infrastructure was in place and used by every software project, all developers working on an Internet-connected computer would effectively be working on the same library of functions.

The Planetary Build System is at a (very early) proof of concept stage. Currently, it only supports building C projects, written in K&R style, docummented with doxygen syntax, and implemented in a single directory.

You can download this repository, and then issue:

$ python setup.py install

After installation, you will have a new command, pbs, which can be used from any directory where your project to be built resides. There is an example project in this repository, under pbs/tests/example/.

$ cd pbs/tests/example/simple/
$ pbs
INFO:root:Found this answer for procedure int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
 described as 'How to make a no-op':
 #include <iostream>

#ifdef NOOP
    #define conditional_noop(x)
#else
    #define conditional_noop(x) std::cout << (x)

Notice that the exact output may vary, depending on the available answers on community websites.

If you have already reviewed the community answers for one of your functions, and have either integrated the answer or rejected it as irrelevant to your case, you can avoid pbs from repeating the lookup by marking the function as reviewed. This is done by adding @pbs: reviewed to the doxygen comment on any function.

/**
 * How to make a no-op
 *
 * @pbs: reviewed
 */
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
    return 0;
}

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Copyright (c) 2015 Luis Osa

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