gpp mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• gpp

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository is the official development location and the project homepage links users to online documentation, portable source packages, and binary-package references. The repository includes source, documentation, Autotools files, license files, and citation metadata.

GPP has academic documentation as well as package metadata: its CITATION.cff points to a 2020 Journal of Open Source Software article by Tristan Miller and Denis Auroux describing it as an extensible, customizable preprocessor for software development, document processing, and research workflows.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The input package-manager facts list Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Ubuntu, and openSUSE packages. That spread fits a small C command-line tool that is useful in build pipelines and documentation generation without needing a runtime service.

Homebrew packages it as gpp, Fedora uses the more descriptive general-purpose-preprocessor name, and the official README points users to binary-package links on the project homepage.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users invoke gpp to preprocess text with syntax tuned to the target language or document format. The README notes that the documentation itself is generated by GPP from a gpp.pp input file, making the docs both reference material and a working example.

The package is most useful when cpp is too language-specific and m4 is heavier than needed: templating LaTeX or HTML, defining domain-specific macro syntax, or generating source fragments in build systems.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

GPP is a compact example of a Unix filter that earns packaging despite a small footprint: it has a single executable, man/HTML documentation, portable source releases, and a stable niche that overlaps build systems, documentation, and research tooling.

Its significance is less about popularity and more about substitutability: package users can reach for it when they need a configurable macro processor without bringing in a full template engine or language-specific preprocessor.

Zeitleiste

• 2020: The project citation metadata records a Journal of Open Source Software article for GPP.
• 2023: GitHub release metadata records GPP 2.28 dated Sep 26, 2023.
• 2026: Homebrew metadata packages GPP as version 2.28 with bottles for macOS and Linux.

Related projects

• cpp is the language-specific baseline that GPP explicitly contrasts with.
• GNU m4 is the heavier general macro processor that GPP positions itself beside.
• Autotools-style source packages are related operationally because the development checkout requires generating the build system before end-user installation steps apply.

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gpp
• https://github.com/logological/gpp
• https://logological.org/gpp
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/logological/gpp/master/CITATION.cff