A lot of unexpected work had to be done on the Cryptonote generator. This lead to a delay in the development process.
New version of the Cryptonote generator (https://github.com/dashcoin/cryptonote-generator) is released.
What is new in this version:
* Plugins now are loaded through the config file
* Tests are loaded through the config file
* Base coin git is now configurable
* Cryptonotecoin-core plugin (necessary for genesis block generation) + tests (credits: piotaak)
Also make you able to create CryptonoteCoin fork (uses a lot of RAM)
* Examples - slowcoin (coin with emission close to bitcoin)
This update makes the initial block generation fairly easy. The real generation of the initial block will be added shortly.
Thanks for all the efforts.