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Sections: Main page Linux in the news Security Kernel Distributions Development Commerce Announcements Back page All in one big page See also: last week's Development page.	Development tools Java As we mentioned on our primary page, IBM has released the "Jikes" Java compiler under an open source license. Pointers to more information can be found there. Sun's JDK 1.2 is officially shipping. It has been renamed the Java 2 Platform. In addition, Java 3D is finally out of beta; Java 3D 1.1 has been released. In response to repeated requests for a rough time estimate of when the Linux version of JDK 1.2 would be available, Kevin Goode commented, "The Linux port of the Java 2 platform is being handled in conjuction with a 3rd party vendor, we will notify you as soon as we have an exact date for the release." No further information is currently available. Perl Makepatch 2.00 has been released. It contains "a pair of programs to assist in the generation and application of patch kits to synchronise source trees." Python This week's Python-URL! is available. Should Python 2.0 be written in C++? Here is an advocacy posting arguing strongly in the affirmative. Gary Strangman announced the release of his stats.py module, containing basic statistical functions and some "not-so-basic" functions, such as non- parametric t-tests, various correlations, within/between-subject ANOVAs and more. Tcl/tk Extended Tcl (TclX) version 8.0.4 has been released. The announcement indicates that the new version provides compatibility with Tcl 8.0.4 plus assorted minor bug fixes. Lindsay F. Marshall has released Frink 1.2p35, a new version of his tcl prettifier. Tcl-URL!, the weekly guide to Tcl resources for December 7th is available. Mark Roseman reports an assortment of goodies, including news on the next Tcl/tk conference, AxTCL, and much more. Tom Poindexter published announcements for Mpexpr-1.0 and Sybtcl-3.0b2.	December 10, 1998

	Development projects Emacspeak, support for the blind under Linux and other Unix operating systems has been chosen as a Smithsonian Institute Case Study, to be "preserved in the Smithsonian Institution's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology so that future generations may learn about the Information Age from the men and women who are creating this current day revolution." Hans Zoebelein dropped us dropped us a note about the honor and mentioned some interesting tidbits that will be forthcoming in the next New Scientist ... Erlang Erlang is a programming language developed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory. On December 8th, the source code to Erlang was released, along with the source code to Mnesia, a distributed Database Management System suited to telecommunications applications. The license for the software is a derivative of the Mozilla license that has been tweaked to fit the laws of Sweden. Erlang is the primary language used to develop Eddie, a set of applications useful for building "robust and scalable server farms." This language is a bit different; check out this bit of the Eddie source for an example of how it looks. Erlang is based on a functional model. GTK A new mailing list for the "discussion of the internationalization and localization of GTK+ itself and of GTK+ applications". The list is called gtk-i18n-list@redhat.com and subscription information is available. High Availability The High Availability HOWTO has been updated. Zope Paul Everitt reports that the Beta 2 release of Zope will be out tomorrow, Friday, December 11th. It will contain pre-compiled binaries and some more examples and documentation. Information on zope can be found at the Zope website.
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