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Turn the ComponentFactory into a composite. Create a type loader and a type instantiator.
Of each of these, multiple implementations might exist and be active at the same time.

This might come in handy, when the components might also be given in other formats (VHDL, XML…) or when introducing parametrized types.

Libraries are fixed sets of components that have a given hierarchy and can be imported as whole.

Technically a library is a special case of an component category.

Change the include guards, so that they contain the full namespace path.
So e.g. replace ITERATOR_H with Q2D_QUANTOR_ITERATOR_H.

At the moment, component type sources are described as absolute paths. This is neither system agnostc nor flexible.

Idea: change to URIs or (at least) to paths relative to the component directory.

This also involves the handling of categories.

The used ressources like images etc. should be in the git as well.

Remove the sources and offer them as seperate download link.
Document, that both need to be built previously to q2d.

Provide a way to specify a customized output format for the computed configuration of a component.

A first step could be a basic format string, which would, for instance, allow the representation of the configuration of a LUT as a hexadecimal INIT vector, which could be pasted into the instantiation of a corresponding primitive in an HDL design. Another option would be the introduction of graphical items to a component's schematic that are only drawn conditionally according to the computed configuration. Such a feature would, for instance, allow the intuitive representation of the selected path of a configurable multiplexer (CMUX). Ultimately, the output of a complete netlist implementation of the target fuction that instantiates configured device primitives can be envisioned.

This class abstract partial Component Behaviour Descriptors.
These are not functions at all.
So: Rename the class and update the wiki and documentation.

Currently, most Getter functions look like Javas getFoo().
Change this to the style used also in Qt, which is simply foo().