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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 Guile Guile-hobbit, the Scheme to C compiler, has a new release, version 1.3.3. Java No updates on the JDK 1.2 development have been posted in the past week. Perl SlashDot linked to the Perl.com interview with Gurusamy Sarathy, discussing upcoming features for perl 5.6. Because Gurugamy works for ActiveState Tools Corp. which has accepted a large sum of money from Microsoft to "improve" Perl under Windows, the concern that Perl would become bloated or otherwise "Microsoft-ized" resurfaced. Tom Christiansen was one of the responders, pointing people to the FAQ from ActiveState, addressing explicitly what they will do for Microsoft and how it will be handled. "The interfaces and implementation of all parts of the work that have a chance of being generally useful will be discussed amidst the Perl development community (perl5-porters@perl.org, archived at www.deja.com) for inclusion in Perl. " Meaning, presumably, that the work they do for Microsoft will be included in the base perl distribution only if the perl development community agrees. Python A Mailing list for Australian Python Users has been created. It will be a forum for "Python issues uniquely of interest to Aussie Python users". For subscription information, go to http://starship.python.net/mailman/listinfo/python-au. A Call for Panelists for moderated panels coming up at the O'Reilly Python Conference has gone out. Panels will include "Python Success Stories" and "Joys and Pains of Building an Open-Source Community". Tcl/tk Tcl/Tk 8.2b1 was announced last week, yet managed to miss our development summary. The number of bug reports on the list for this release seemed to be rather high. You may want to review the comp.lang.tcl archives before deciding whether or not to upgrade. README: Tcl-URL! for July 19th has been released. Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh	July 22, 1999

	Development projects MandrakeSoft has released a new disk partitioning program called DiskDrake. It provides a graphical interface, and is able to resize FAT partitions without losing data. Diskdrake has been released under the GPL. Open Source Media Art gained a new project. esc to begin is "an experimental research group developing applications and hardware for interactive media art" which plans to place all of its work under the GPL. They will be presenting their project status in September at the second Wizards of OS conference. The Linux Memory Management Page is looking for people interested in becoming part of a team responsible for maintaining it. Rik van Riel sent in this note explaining why he is no longer able to serve as maintainer and why he feels a team of maintainers is the best way to resolve the problem. If you've been looking for a place to help out, this should be a good opportunity. IRCAM has released its jMax system under the GPL. jMax is an environment for music performance and real time digital audio processing; it has been available (under a different license) since late last year. Gnome Havoc Pennington's Gnome Summary for July 11th through the 18th mentioned that an archive of the Gnome Summaries is now available at http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/index.html. News for this week mentions that a Bonobo interface has been added to the Gimp, so that editable Gimp images can now be embedded in other applications. An API FAQ is now available. LinuxWorld reported back on Gnome at the Open Source Forum, which indicates that the author was very favorably impressed with Miguel's talk at that event. "Bill Gates used to work his troops up into a frenzy by talking about the kid who was "out there coding in his garage," writing a Windows-killer. Mister Gates, meet Miguel de Icaza. He may be the bogeyman who's been giving you those nightmares." KDE The KDE Development News for July 7th through July 13th has been released. It seems that KOffice has picked up an OLE-stream decoder, which is good news for people working on MSOffice import filters. The document format for KOffice seems to be standardizing on a tar-gzip type file, with XML for the readable text and embedded binaries in their native format. They are looking for someone to help update and maintain the KOffice website. Additional development news is also included. Midgard The Midgard Weekly Summary for July 21streports the release of Midgard 1.1.1. In addition, Midgard will be using the iODBC library from OpenLink Software for their database connectivity. This library has recently been released to the public under the GPL. This will allow them to expand their database support from MySQL, which has some licensing problems, to the full range of databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc. Additional news included the upcoming availability of RPM packages for Midgard, thanks to Emile Heyns, and a mailing list archive, thanks to Progressive Computing Concepts, Inc. Samba A new release of Samba, version 2.0.5, has been released. This is a bug-fix release, but it is highly recommended for production servers. Fixes for three security-related problems are included. Zope The Zope Weekly News for July 21st is available. Zope 2.0 beta is very close, but not quite out and a new alpha-version XML Zope product will be announced in the next couple of days. Zope-announce is a new mailing list for those of you wishing to follow Zope more closely without subscribing to any of their high-volume lists. Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh
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