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STEPcode v0.8 -- github.com/stepcode/stepcode

• What is STEPcode? SC reads ISO10303-11 EXPRESS schemas and generates C++ source code that can read and write Part 21 files conforming to that schema. In addition to C++, SC includes experimental support for Python.

• Renamed in April/May 2012: SC was formerly known as STEP Class Libraries, SCL for short. It was renamed because the name wasn't accurate: the class libraries make up only a part of the code.

• Much of the work to update SC has been done by the developers of BRL-CAD, and SC (then STEP Class Library) was originally created at NIST in the 90's.

• For information on changes version-by-version, see the NEWS file

• Building and testing SCL - see the INSTALL file

• For more details on the libraries and executables, see the wiki: http://github.com/stepcode/stepcode/wiki/About-STEPcode

• For license details, see the COPYING file. Summary: 3-clause BSD.

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CODING STANDARDS

SC's source has been reformatted with astyle. When making changes, try to match the current formatting. The main points are:

• compact (java-style) brackets:

    if( a == 3 ) {
        c = 5;
        function( a, b );
    } else {
        somefunc( );
    }

• indents are 4 spaces
• no tab characters
• line endings are LF (linux), not CRLF (windows)
• brackets around single-line conditionals
• spaces inside parentheses and around operators
• return type on the same line as the function name, unless that's too long
• doxygen-style comments (see http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/docblocks.html)

If in doubt about a large patch, run astyle with the config file misc/astyle.cfg. Download astyle from http://sourceforge.net/projects/astyle/files/astyle/

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For more info, see the wiki.