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Lessons in Packaging Linux Applications
This article records our experiences with packaging an application for many distributions and shows areas in which packagers, Linux distributions, and developers can improve coordination for better and easier distribution. We look at communication problems, packaging errors, package dependencies, menu entries, and bug tracking systems.
Afian 1.4.8
Afian is a Web-based file manager which allows you to upload, rename, create, and delete files on a server through HTTP, eliminating the need for an FTP client. It has a clipboard with Cut, Copy, and Paste features. The easy-to-use interface lets you select multiple files and folders by clicking on their icons (there are no checkboxes). Context menus and dialog boxes appear on the screen without refreshing the page. The script looks pretty and installs quickly.
Agent Farms 0.3.1
Agent Farms is a system for modeling and simulation of complex, multi-agent based systems. The system can be used for creating models of multi-agent systems, interactive and distributed simulation, observation and visualisation of the simulation, and population modification and migration. On those models one can learn about the evolution of strategies in the populations of agents.
amaroK 0.6.0
amaroK is a media player for KDE. It uses the aRts multimedia framework to play audio and video, and features a fresh and efficient approach to playlist handling. Emphasis is on the quick and easy user interface, allowing for fast access to the media library.
AntiRight Desktop Environment 1.81
AntiRight is optimized to work on all POSIX-compatible systems supporting the Motif API. The software consists of a text editor, a clock, a CD player, a sticky notes applet, an internet dialer interface, a filemanager, a calculator, a shell command launcher, a help system, an X backdrop editor, an X resource theme selector, a security control panel, an xhost controller, a disk settings panel, and a graphical pager.
Aorta 0.05
Aorta is a load-balancing clustered P2P application. It executes Tasklets (which have the ability to split themselves into sub tasks that can be executed in pararell). A typical cluster contains of a LAN with 1-256 computers, each one running aorta. A Tasklet can be of any type ranging from encoding MP3s, Genomic DNA Alignment, or simply to rendering Web pages for high speed/heavily loaded Web sites. You can make functions calls to C/C++, applications like Matlab, etc.
Athene 3.2
Athene is a multi-platform OS environment. Based on XML and an object oriented foundation, it literally builds itself at runtime from user-editable XML scripts. It is X11-compatible and capable of functioning as a stand-alone desktop environment or as an X client. Three GUIs are included, including Windows and Amiga interfaces that are accurate clones of their counterparts. Athene features a highly responsive interface, high quality icons, translucency and alpha blending effects, unicode support, and Windows/Linux compatibility.
Axiom 0.0.0cvs
Axiom is a general purpose computer algebra system. It is useful for research and development of mathematical algorithms. It defines a strongly typed, mathematically correct type hierarchy. It has a programming language and a built-in compiler.
b. 1.4.2
b. is a Web-based manager for bookmarks (which are stored in an XML/XBEL file). Operations on the data are done with Perl scripts, and it supports multiple users and user-customizable themes. It only requires Perl and a Web server.
bes-cms 0.4rc3
Bes-cms is a multi-user application server which features automatic downloading and installing of plugins with its true tree-like filesysteme structure, Linux-like permissions, internationalization support, and a complete error management system to allow debugging without leaving the site. Bes-cms is appropriate for making small to large Web sites, intranet systems, backup systems, and weblogs.
BetterC 1.2-0
BetterC is a library written in portable ANSI C that provides support for the "Programming by contract" methodology. It provides Eiffel-like exception handling, which includes preconditions, postconditions, and loop invariants. Other features include exception logging and execution traces. It also detects memory leaks, multiple deallocations, and deallocations without previous allocation.
Binc IMAP 1.2.3-1 (Stable)
Binc IMAP is a well designed, modular IMAP server for Maildir. Its goals are to be secure, stable, and fast, yet flexible and easy to maintain. It is designed to be familiar for qmail-pop3d users, uses checkpassword to authenticate, and is very easy to set up.
Bioperl 1.2.3
Bioperl is set of Perl Modules for bioinformatics. It contains objects for Sequences, features on Sequences, and other important bioinformatics attributes.
BrowserCRM 1.22
BrowserCRM is a complete business solution designed for the small-to-medium business that features CRM, email, multi-person calendar, intranet, tasks, memos, mail-merge, conference chat, and admin. Its features include an intuitive user interface, email logging against the contact history, import wizards, and extensive admin and customization functionality. It is extremely easy to setup and use, and is available as a server version or hosted online.
Bugzero 3.1.1
Bugzero is an all-in-one product for software bug tracking, defect issue incident tracking, trouble ticketing, help desk support, and customer email management. It is simple to use and avoids complexity by making the tasks or projects separate and independent. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group and field level access control, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, inbound email management, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, self registration to public projects, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.
Chombo 1.4-12Sep2003
The Chombo package provides a set of tools for implementing finite difference methods for the solution of partial differential equations on block-structured adaptively refined rectangular grids. Both elliptic and time-dependent modules are included. Support for parallel platforms and standardized self-describing file formats are included.
coWiki 0.3.1
coWiki is a sophisticated but easy-to-use Web collaboration tool that helps you and your coworkers create and organize Web documents, Weblogs, and knowledgebases (or any other document structures) directly in HTML browsers. You can evolve ideas and gain a concomitant XML documentation of your brainstorming without having to concentrate on complicated structural syntaxes. coWiki follows the tradition of loose Wiki Wiki Webs with easy and intuitional markup, adding Unixlike access management, a directory/document hierarchy, and a plugin API for your functionalities and enhancements. It is template-based and multilingual.
curator 2.1
Curator is a powerful script that allows one to generate Web page image galleries with the intent of displaying photographic images on the Web, or for a CD-ROM presentation and archiving. It generates static Web pages only - no special configuration or running scripts are required on the server. The script supports many file formats, hierarchical directories, thumbnail generation and update, per-image description file with many fields, and 'tracks' of images spanning multiple directories. The templates consist of HTML with embedded Python. Running this script only requires a recent Python interpreter and the ImageMagick tools.
CUTE User-friendly Text Editor 0.2.1
CUTE is a text editor, based on Qt and Scintilla, which can be easily extended using Python. Its main purpose is to be a user-friendly source code editor with a common graphical user interface.
CxxTest 3.7.0
CxxTest is a JUnit/CppUnit/xUnit-like framework for C++ that doesn't require RTTI, member template functions, exception handling, or any external libraries (including memory management, file/console I/O, or graphics libraries). It is distributed entirely as a set of header files which makes it extremely portable and usable.
Cygwin 1.5.5-1
Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for Windows. The Cygwin environment provides a complete port of such development utilities as gcc, binutils, gdb, make, etc., as well as a vast number of useful utilities.
darcs 0.9.13
Darcs is an advanced revision control system along the lines of CVS or arch. It has two particularly distinctive features which differ from other revision control systems: each copy of the source is a fully functional branch, and underlying it is a consistent and powerful theory of patches (the latter being darcs' most important feature).
Eiffel Wrapper Generator 0.6.0
EWG (Eiffel Wrapper Generator) is a tool that generates Eiffel wrapper classes for C libraries. It can be used to create libraries that bridge the gap between Eiffel and C. It aims to work for arbitrary ANSI C and with all common Eiffel compilers. It is ideal for creating cross-platform, cross-Eiffel-compiler, and cross-C-compiler C library wrappers. It can handle pretty much all ANSI C, but understands Visual C and GCC extensions as well.
eKstreme PHPCounter 6.1
eKstreme PHPCounter is a real time Web page counter which can be set to track any number of Web pages using a single script. It does not require a database. Logs are automatically rotated. Output can be either HTML or images. It has several tracking options, including creating Common Log Format (CLF) files, creating NCSA Combined Log Format files, invisible counting, starting the counter at any number, and much more.
EmPy 3.1.1
EmPy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text. It takes an EmPy source file, processes it, and produces output. This is accomplished via expansions, which are special signals to the EmPy system and are set off by a special prefix (by default the at sign, '@'). It can expand arbitrary Python expressions and statements in this way, as well as a variety of special forms. Textual data not explicitly delimited in this way is sent unaffected to the output, allowing Python to be used in effect as a markup language. Also supported are callbacks via hooks, recording and playback via diversions, and dynamic, chainable filters. The system is highly configurable via command line options and embedded commands.
flp-Thumbnail 1.000
flp-Thumbnail is a set of classes for generating a thumbnail with a logo/watermark from a picture and cacheing it to a folder.
Foomatic-GUI 0.6.3
Foomatic-GUI includes a GNOME-based graphical user interface to simplify adding, configuring, and administering printers using the Foomatic printing system. Unlike other tools, it is designed to work with all spooling systems supported by Foomatic, including CUPS, LPRng, and PPR, and is intended to work on all Linux distributions.
FreeLords 2003-09-21
Freelords is a rewrite of the well-known Warlords II. It mainly resembles Warlords, but also extends the game, e.g. units have hit points and the save, and configuration files have an easy-to-read XML format.
FSP Client 0.0.2
FSP Client is single executable client for the FSP protocol. FSP Client uses an FTP-like user interface. It feels like FTP, but under the hood it uses FSP. FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transfering files around, and was designed for anonymous archives.
ftpcopy 0.6.5
ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats.
Gaim Smileys 0.1
Gaim Smileys is a collection of the smileys used by most IM clients. It was created after the author became tired of receiving lots of messages and had no idea of what they meant.
Generic Game-Tree Library 1.0.2
GGTL is a C library to help people program computer games. It is targeted in particular at two-player zero-sum games with perfect information. Examples are Chess, Checkers, Go, Othello (Reversi), Tic-Tac-Toe, and Connect-4. For such games, GGTL can provide Alpha-Beta game-tree search (both fixed-depth and iterative deepening), unlimited undo, and saving to/resuming from files. Three example games, Othello, Connect-4, and Tic-Tac-Toe, are included.
GNU Classpath 0.06
GNU Classpath (Essential Libraries for Java) is a project to create free core class libraries for use with virtual machines and compilers for the Java language. It includes all native methods and core classes necessary for a completely functional Java runtime.
GPL Cver 1.10b
GPL Cver is a full Verilog HDL IEEE P1364 standard simulator. It is a high capacity commercial quality interpretive Verilog simulator. Full support for all three PLI interfaces is included: tf_, acc_, and vpi_. Some Verilog 2001 features are supported.
Gungirl Sequencer 0.1
Gungirl Sequencer is an easy-to-use audio sequencer. It includes a simple file manager and uses drag-and-drop to arrange audio samples.
IP2Web 1.1
IP2Web is a dialog (and console) frontend designed to manage a dynamic Internet connection. It monitors an Internet connection for an IP address change, and posts these changes to a static Web site or via email.
iptacct 0.12
iptacct is an iptables/netfilter accounting tool written in perl. It uses an XML configuration file and stores the data in a completely user-configurable, modular way. You can use any backend you want to use in order to store the data, instead of being forced by the software to save the accounting data in a SQL database, a text file, or an RRD database.
Issue Dealer 1.2 (Enterprise)
The Issue Dealer is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information and tasks. It can be used as an issue tracker, knowledge management tool, or outliner. JBoss 3.2.2 RC4 (3.2.x Development Releases) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136501/ JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container, and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the Free/Open Source software world. JGAP 1.0
JGAP (pronounced "jay-gap") is a genetic algorithms package written in Java. It is designed to require minimum effort to use "out of the box", but is highly modular and allows custom components to be easily plugged in by the more adventurous.
Jinzora 0.6.2
Jinzora is a Web-based media streamer, primarily designed to stream MP3s (but can be used for any media file that can stream from HTTP). It can be integrated into a PostNuke site, run as a standalone application, or be integrated into any PHP Website.
jscl-meditor 0.77
jscl-meditor is a Java symbolic computing library and mathematical editor. It features polynomial system solving, vectors and matrices, factorization, derivatives, integrals (rational functions), boolean expression processing, simplification, and MathML output.
KSubtile 0.6
KSubtile allows moving, stretching, and editing of SRT subtitle files. It also provides an easy-to-use interface to MPlayer to easily sync the subtitles to a movie.
KXParse 2.2
KXParse is a PHP-based, lightweight, easy-to-use XML parser. It does not require installation because it's just an include file that's loaded on the fly. It features an API that simplifies the process of reading files.
libpcapnav 0.1
libpcapnav is a libpcap wrapper library that allows navigation to arbitrary locations in a tcpdump trace file between reads. The API is intentionally much like that of the pcap library. You can navigate in trace files both in time and space. You can jump to a packet which is at approximately 2/3 of the trace, or you can jump as closely as possible to a packet with a given timestamp, and then read packets from there. In addition, the API provides convenience functions for manipulating timeval structures.
MacXM 1.9
MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection.
mail2chart 1.3.1
mail2chart generates various statistical charts from a bunch of mail messages. The code for generating a certain type of chart can be plugged into the program. This program depends heavily on MH for accessing mail messages and on gnuplot for generating the charts.
Mindmeld 1.2.1-20030919 (Development)
Mindmeld is an enterprise-capable knowledge sharing system designed for any Web community that needs to capture and share information. It is unique in that the knowledge base grows smarter every time it's used. It incorporates terms used in each search into a contextual map of the answer itself, continually improving its ability to derive contextual information from a given search. The system learns how people typically search for an answer by identifying which terms are most valuable in any specific context.
ms-sys 1.1.0 (Development)
ms-sys is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft's "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT32 partition, except that it does not copy any system files (only the boot record is written).
Netdude 0.1 (Backend)
Netdude (the NETwork DUmp data Displayer and Editor) is a framework for inspection and manipulation of tcpdump tracefiles. It is separated into a GUI-based frontend and a backend library that performs the actual packet manipulation. Both the front- and backend can be extended using plugins, in order to add support for new protocols and to provide modular code to other developers.
Netdude 0.4 (GUI)
Netdude (the NETwork DUmp data Displayer and Editor) is a framework for inspection and manipulation of tcpdump tracefiles. It is separated into a GUI-based frontend and a backend library that performs the actual packet manipulation. Both the front- and backend can be extended using plugins, in order to add support for new protocols and to provide modular code to other developers.
NX 1.3.0-alpha1
NX is a remote desktop system based on the X11 protocol. It provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11, HTTP, SMB, and arbitrary protocols, like audio, over low-bandwidth links. By translating and embedding RFB and RDP in X protocol, it is also able to compress VNC and Windows Terminal Service sessions.
Pandora Engine 2003/09 (Stable)
The Pandora Engine SDK is an object-oriented development environment that is specially designed for multi-platform use. It allows you to create truly object-oriented programs without being restricted to object-oriented languages like C++. The environment is fully self-contained, which allows for easier porting. It can be used for creating both applications and games. The SDK is also required to write programs for Athene, a multi-platform operating system that is based on the engine.
phpExifRW 0.6
phpExifRW is a pure PHP class to read, write, and transfer EXIF information that most digital cameras produce. This class overcomes the problem of most distributions that do not add Exif extensions in their default installation of PHP.
PhpICalendarX 3.2
PHPICalendarX is a calender generation class defined from customizable parameters. You can set you own stylesheet and output template for the calender.
phpSavant 0.7
Savant is a PEAR-compliant template system for PHP. It is non-compiling, and uses PHP itself as its template language so you don't need to learn a new markup system. It accepts variables for parsing by a PHP-based template script via assign() methods (you can assign references and objects as well), allows you to display() and fetch() template scripts, has a plugin system so you can call convenience methods from within your template scripts using $this->plugin(), and has an output filter system so you can apply filters to the template output results.
PrBoom 2.2.4
Doom was the classic 3D shoot'em'up game from id Software. PrBoom is a game engine for playing Doom levels, which runs on both Windows and POSIX systems. It uses the SDL graphics library. PrBoom is as compatible and as true to the original Doom as the authors could make it. PrBoom has recently merged with the LxDoom and LSDLDoom projects.
Project Manager X 2.02
PMX is a simple project management tool for OS X. It allows you to track, group, and manage project items and resource allocation. It displays the project in a nice Gantt Chart that can be printed. It requires Mac OS X 10.2.3 or greater.
Pulsar 0.1.1 (Development)
Pulsar is a POP3 email server with a configuration file, multiple
authentication mechanisms (PAM, MySQL, Unix, or plaintext file), realms
pWhiteboard 0.4
pWhiteboard can be thought of as a single-page Wiki. It creates a Web page with built-in WYSIWYG editing, thanks to interactivetools' htmlArea. You can edit the whiteboard contents at any time, and save a snapshot to create a permanent record.
qjackctl 0.0.8
Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way to control of the status of the audio server daemon.
QMail Installation 1.3.6-rc3
QMail Installation is a small and very practical script that makes it easy to install qmail and other related tools, such as vpopmail, qmailadmin, spamassassin, F-prot, and qmailmrtg.
qmail-installer 0.1
qmail-installer is a shell script that asks the user a few configuration questions, and then downloads, patches, installs, and configures Qmail and its dependencies. Currently, the script installs daemontools and ucspi-tcp, and optionally qmailanalog, the SMTP AUTH patch, the qmail- queue patch, and the virus-scan-zip patch. The installer offers a number of modes (outbound only, outbound only with SMTP, normal, and normal with POP). The qmail installation performed by this script is compliant with Dan Bernstein's licensing, and is very close to an LWQ installation.
QTParted 0.4.0
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.
Quantian 0.3.9.2
Quantian is a directly bootable and self-configuring Linux system on a single CD-ROM. Based on Knoppix and clusterKnoppix, it provides out-of-the box support for openMosix as well as about 500MB of additional software with a quantitative, numerical, or scientific focus such as R (including many CRAN packages), Octave (including several add-on packages), Gambit, Gap, GiNaC, GMT, Grace, Gri, GSL, Maxima, OpenDX, Pari, PDL, PSPP, QuantLib, XLisp-Stat, Yacas, and Yorick.
RapidTeX 0.1.0
RapidTeX is a LaTeX preprocessor that allows users to write more intuitive source files more easily. Short forms are available for a lot of common TeX commands. The sourcefiles are more like a plain text file and are therefore faster to make and easier to read. The Latin subset of Unicode is also supported. Reverse Utils::TCP-over-HTTP/CGI 0.1.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136539/ Reverse Utils::TCP-over-HTTP/CGI is useful for connecting to hosts which are reachable by a Webserver you have access to, but not reachable by you. It allows you to use any host you have Web and CGI access to as a proxy for TCP connections.
Snownews 1.2.2
Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and 2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing.
Speex 1.1 (Unstable)
Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for
speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in
the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP
squidview 0.51 (Development)
Squidview is an interactive console program which monitors squid logs and displays them in a nice fashion. It has searching and reporting functions, giving information like per user bandwidth and cache hits.
swaret 1.3.1
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
Synclast UI API 20030920
The Synclast UI API is an extensible toolkit for creating colorful custom user interfaces on Java-enabled handheld devices (Java 2 Micro Edition Mobile Information Device Profile) in an intuitive yet efficient manner. It is compatible with any MIDP 1.0 device, and is fully open source.
TCP Re-engineering Tool Unstable 1.3.5
TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between
a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data
stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol
TrueCurve 1.0.3
TrueCurve is a theme based on the BlueCurve MetaCity theme released with Red Hat 8.0; it is an attempt to perfectly copy the original design.
U-stream 1.0.2
U-Stream allows you to listen to your MP3 and OGG files from anywhere on the Internet. It is easy to install, and includes a setup wizard. It allows you to create and save playlists that are accessable from any Internet location. The playlists can be exported to any music player that supports HTTP streaming, such as Winamp. The music can be re-encoded on the fly to any bitrate. The system is secure, so that only you have access to your music.
vimsh 0.16
vimsh is a terminal/shell buffer script for Python-enabled [g]vim. It allows execution of shell commands in a vim buffer, without having to suspend the vim session.
VPNmonitor 0.16
VPNmonitor is a free Java tool for observing network traffic. Network
administrators can use it to monitor VPN (PPTP and IPSec) and SSL
WebConference LiveHelp! 2.5.2
WebConference LiveHelp! is a Web-enabled suite of customer care tools designed for use with Web sites and private intranets. The LiveHelp suite of tools includes a feature-rich one-on-one customer service chat environment, searchable chat transcript knowledge base, real-time Web site visitor tracking and pro-active invitation tool, a Web-enabled shared email system for answering customer service email, and a feedback collection and reporting tool. Advanced features include support for multiple "call queues", seamless redundancy and load balancing, direct uploads (from your desktop to the customer), and reporting tools.
xplain2sql 2.0
xplain2sql converts files from Xplain to SQL. It supports a very large subset of Xplain, and it can convert from Xplain to Microsoft SQL Server, DB/2, Inprise InterBase, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, or ANSI-92 SQL. It can also generate an XML description of the generated SQL. This XML description can be used to create low-level middle-tier code. A Delphi/ADO XSLT style sheet is included. The C source code release should compile on any platform with an ANSI C compiler. There are binary releases for FreeBSD, BeOS, Linux, and Windows 2000.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.4.9 (Stable)
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages. To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Freshmeat, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved. Received on Sun Sep 21 08:06:32 2003 This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Aug 23 2006 - 13:27:24 EDT |
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