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Sections: Main page Linux in the news Security Kernel Distributions Ports Development Commerce Announcements Back page All in one big page See also: last week's Development page.	Development tools Java A new version of the Jikes Java compiler is available for Linux. See their announcement for a bit more info and a pointer to the software. Although it is in the README.linux, apparently many people have not read or noticed the point that segmentation errors with the JDK are caused by incompatible shared libraries 99% of the time. This note from Kevin B. Hendricks reiterates what you should do before you send a bug report. The Linux JDK porters are having problems, again, with Sun's non-commercial source distribution. As a result, although 1.1.7 has been announced, work on porting it cannot begin until these problems are resolved. Hopefully somewhere someone's ears at Sun are burning ... [Note that the last thing we heard, at least one person has been able to successfully get the 1.1.7 source.] Perl The "Build'n'Play" installation tool is a tool for automatically installing Perl plus subsets or most of the Perl Modules from CPAN, which will accompany O'Reilly's upcoming German version of the book Programming with Perl Modules and afterwards be made available on CPAN. The authors are looking for feedback and are working under a tight schedule, so if you are interested and able to get back to them before October 15th, you may want to take an advance look. Introductory and advanced PERL training will be held in New Jersey, October 26th through the thirtieth. Admission is open. Python Guido had a few pithy words to say about "Siege Mentality", or "Why people insist on responding to Trolls." He does an excellent job of the topic and we wish him success in his efforts to decrease inappropriate threads in the comp.lang.python group. Version 1.4 of the Python interface to the MySQL database has been released. A mailing list for Python CE discussions has been started. Python CE is free software that can be used on Windows CE based devices. A revised version of the Python implementation of the Document Object Model has reached the XML-SIG's CVS tree. Interested parties should give it a whirl. Oliver Andrich has released the latest version of his excellent Python distribution. glibc .tar.gz and RPM files are included. The new distribution contains the 1.5.1-23 core python distribution, updates to various packages and a few new packages, including some geared to please the scientific python programmer, e.g., python-netcdf and python-scientific. October 12th is the deadline for submitting proposals for short talks and late-breaking news for the upcoming 7th International Python Conference. Tcl/tk The VU widget set for Tk 8.0 has been announced. This is a one-time upgrade of the widgets to Tk 8.0. The Tk Tree widget also has a new release. Further news in Tk widget land, an alpha version of a SlideWidget has been posted. The Tcl Plugin web pages have been relocated in anticipation of the current web server going off-line. Scriptics has announced four public Tcl/Tk courses which will be held in San Jose, California in November and January.	October 8, 1998

	Development projects Rick Dearman sent us a note about the Dominion Java Game Project, which plans to create a new Java based game for the Internet. They are looking for Java developers and graphics artists interested in contributing. The Free Software Foundation has posted a request for remote logins and disk space on HPUX 11, AIX 4.1.5, and AIX 4.3 systems. GNOME Martin Baulig posted a note mentioning that many weeks of work on GTop 0.29 have been committed to CVS, so people can now grab the latest source and try out all the new features. He mentions that he plans to release GTop 0.30 and LibGTop 0.30 shortly, if all the bugs are fixed.
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