See also: last week's Development page.

Development tools

Perl

In addition, the Perl News also reported the O'Reilly announcement for Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C: The Apache API and mod_perl by Lincoln Stein & Doug MacEachern.

Python

Scintilla 0.81 and Tide 0.81 have been been announced. Scintilla is a "free source code editing component for Win32".

Too much color in your life? John Lehmann has made availablea monochrome proxy http server to help you out.

The Python Data Analysis Servant (PyDAS) has released version 0.1.

A Python-based 3D role playing game engine is the goal of the Pyrpg project. They have just announced their 0.0.1 release.

A new version of the Python Database API has been announced. In the new version, the dbi abstraction module has been folded into the interface module. Various other improvements have been made as well.

The first full release of Fnorb, version 1.0, is now available. Fnorb is a Python-based CORBA ORB.

A new Python book is out. The latest is Learning Python, from O'Reilly. It's written by Mark Lutz and David Ascher, and is an introductory manual.

Tcl/tk

The third beta release of Sybtcl-3.0b3, has been uploaded to the tcl archive. It includes a new command, "sybevent", which provides "file-event"-like processing. Sybtcl provides an interface to the Sybase database server.

Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh

Development projects

GDB

High Availability

KDE

Gnome

Gnome-core 1.0.5 has been announced, containing "many important bug fixes and additions". New features include an option to allow the panel to read kde menus in any location, lots of new icons, new and updated translations and more. Bug fixes include a potential security hole.

GNU Midnight Commander has been updated to version 4.5.30. This update includes fixes for some important security issues, so it is a highly recommended upgrade.

The gnome bugs database is now searchable. This note from Jacob Berkman describes the search capability recently added to http://bugs.gnome.org.

Updates for this week include Gnome Libs 1.0.8, Gnome PIM 1.0.7, gnome-db 0.20.0, gnorpm and Gxanim 0.20a.

RHAD Labs has announced Gnome 1.0 RPMS for Red Hat Linux 5.2. Martin Quinson followed up with instructions for people wanting Debian Gnome packages.

Linux Accounting Project

Mozilla/Netscape

For a contrast to last week's furor, Chris Nelson wrote Mozilla's Open Source Success, a more positive spin on Mozilla's first year. "Mozilla *was* a first in the industry, and it is wrong to judge it by the success of previous Open Source efforts."

A review of Gecko was posted on Webmonkey on Monday, April 12th. It also contains a brief review of the Mozilla Birthday party. Overall, they are very gung-ho about Gecko: "The reason Gecko generates so much buzz while still in the lab is simple: standards". Along with the praise comes some constructive review, both compliments and criticism. They have some interesting comments on what they feel AOL is likely and not likely to do with the browser once complete.

One error in the review that was quickly pointed out on-line: It claims that Gecko does not yet support external style-sheets, which was immediately disputed. WebMonkey later confirmed that their external CSS contained an error that caused external style-sheets to fail for them.

Bugzilla now accepts attachments. This brief note gives some pointers and indicates that this is now the "preferred" way to submit a patch.

The release notes for M4 are already on-line, even though the source for M4 has not yet been released.

Zope

On a more mundane level, Thomas Riedl is working on a Adabas database adapter and Martijn Pieters has provided a couple of patches, for a safe DTML range function, and an Internet Explorer bug workaround.

A Swedish Zope mailing list has been announced as well.

Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh

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