Development Release v0.1.dev7

[Luna-Klatzer]

v0.1.dev7 - 2022-01-27

Added

• Linker and LinkerMetaData classes for the linking step and dependency
  analysis that is between the logical analysis and code
  generation/optimisation.
• CLI for parac-build.py to simplify the building process by allowing for
  more configuration. This also includes web-download and automatic global
  installation.
• requirements folder with requirements for each use-case like dev, prod
  or common (base requirements for both dev and prod).
• New function ProgramCompilationContext.parse_all_files(), which will parse
  all files.
• Parameter project_root for BasicProcess, ProgramCompilationContext and
  ProgramCompilationContext, which defines the root of the project structure.
  This will also be used for relative naming and paths!
• New Wrapper class ParacProjectConfig for handling json-config files. This
  is still in work and not going to be properly finished until the compiler
  core has been done.
• Ability to use logging without having to stick to CLI formatted logging.

Updated

• Renamed build.py to parac-build.py to not interfere with the build
  module.
• Removed the optimiser module and replaced it with optimiser.py.
• Renamed class ParacParseStream to ParacQualifiedParseStream.
• Renamed function CompileProcess._compile() to ci_compile.
• Renamed function CompileProcess._gen_preprocessor_temp_files()
  to gen_preprocessor_temp_files().
• Renamed function CompileProcess._run_preprocessor() to
  preprocess_files().
• Renamed parameter log_errors_and_warnings to prefer_logging.
• Updated handling of ParacCompiler.validate_syntax() to be an entry-point
  function, which will take as arguments the wanted file path and encoding.
  This means no longer a BasicProcess or CompileProcess is
  needed!
• Handling of files to use an overall files list defined in
  parac-config.json, instead of dynamically fetching using entry files.
  This means it will be similar to GCC compiler using a pre-defined list of
  files, and then link all of them together in the end making them ready for
  execution.
• Renamed Para-C to Para to suit better to its intended feature-set.
• Renamed parac-build.py to para-build.py.
• Renamed all Python classes prefixes Parac to Para.
• Moved logging.py CLI functions to para_ext_cli.
• Made ParaCompiler.validate_syntax() an instance method instead of class .
  method as it needs the ParaCompiler runtime property logger.
• Renamed the class process.FinishedProcess to process.CompileResult.
• Renamed the class process.ProgramCompilationProcess to
  process.CompileProcess.
• Renamed all items named LogicToken and LogicStream to ParseToken and
  ParseStream.
• Restructured listeners, context classes and parse stream functions to have
  a more straightforward module structure, while generating a parse stream.

Removed

• Property mode in bin-config.json.
• Deprecated SEPARATOR and WIN from const.py.
• Constant Compiler instance RUNTIME_COMPILER.
• Functions related to c-init, as the C Compiler configuration will from now
  on be done using para-config.json.
• dist_path and build_path folders, as the code-file generation is now
  handled using process.CompileResult and CompileResult.write_results().
• Unneeded paralang_base.logging module, which has now been completely replaced
  by the default logging handling, and paralang_base_cli.logging.

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