T4Include | code intended be reused source

T4Include is a C# library. T4Include has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However T4Include has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

After working in a couple of large organizations with the vision of creating product lines I have been subjected to some of the pains of trying to incorporate product line assets into a single hosting process. This is often painful, sometimes impossible. This is a difficult problem and in order to succeed, the whole product line has to be constructed from the start with an eye on how their assets will be integrated with other assets in a single hosting process. At the start of a project, this is often overlooked or forgotten and the problem is first realized when the first application team tries to integrate disparate assets. After a few years of projects of this type, I started thinking about C and boost. Boost has two classes of functionality: * One part which requires a precompiled library. This is difficult to integrate: * Needs correct compiler * Needs correct architecture * Needs correct build * Creates visible dependencies (with all its woes) * Has to be integrated in the existing build process which slows the often already slow process * Another part which only requires the referencing code to #include the file * Often template classes because in C template classes can’t be put in a precompiled library * Just works. I wanted something like C++'s include in C, hence T4Include. But T4Include goes further: * It can include from web resources * It can include whole projects * Including is done when the T4 file output is rebuilt, not necessarily during build * Saves compile time * Included code is version controlled in the target project * Simplifies branching * Simplifies change management * Robust.