Monthly Archives: March 2008

New GNU stuff February 2008

Posted on by sandklef

This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as
announced during February 2008 on the mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu

GNU Source-highlight 2.9 / 2008-02-26

This program, given a source file, produces a
document with syntax highlighting.
http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite

mcron 1.0.4 / 2008-02-25

GNU mcron is a replacement for Vixie cron written in
guile and taking guile job specifications (as well as
Vixie-formatted ones) for increased flexibility.
http://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/

GNU ed 0.9 / 2008-02-25

GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant
implementation of the standard Unix line editor.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html

GNU ddrescue 2.8 / 2008-02-25

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

GNU CLISP 2.44.1 / 2008-02-25

ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose
programming language.
http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/

GnuTLS 2.2.2 / 2008-02-21

GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard
network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS),
for use by network applications.
http://www.gnutls.org/

dap 3.7 / 2008-02-21

Dap is a small statistics and graphics package based on C.
http://www.gnu.org/software/dap

GNU Guile 1.8.4 / 2008-02-19

Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language,
with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide
variety of environments.
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile

Libidn 1.5 / 2008-02-19

Libidn is a fully documented implementation of the Stringprep,
Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for
internationalized domain names.
http://josefsson.org/libidn/

glpk 4.26 / 2008-02-17

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended
for solving large-scale linear programming (LP),
mixed integer linear programming (MIP), and
other related problems.
http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html

GNU findutils 4.2.33 / 2008-02-14

GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding
files that match certain criteria and for performing
various operations on them. Findutils includes the
programs “find”, “xargs” and “locate”.
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

AUCTeX 11.85 / 2008-02-10

AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and
sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX,
ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs.
http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/

FreeSnell-1b7 / 2008-02-04

FreeSnell is a program which computes optical
properties of multilayer thin-film coatings.
Dielectric, metallic, and granular metallic films
are supported.
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/FreeSnell

wb-2a2 / 2008-02-04

WB is a disk based (sorted) associative-array package
with C, SCM, Java, and C# libraries.
http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/WB.html

Jacal-1b9 / 2008-02-04

JACAL is an interactive symbolic mathematics program.
JACAL can manipulate and simplify equations, scalars,
vectors, and matrices of single and multiple valued
algebraic expressions containing numbers, variables,
radicals, and algebraic differential, and holonomic
functions.
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/JACAL.html

Scheme implementation scm-5e5 / 2008-02-04

SCM conforms to Revised Report on the Algorithmic
Language Scheme and the IEEE P1178 specification.
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SCM

Scheme library slib-3b1 / 2008-02-04

SLIB is a portable Scheme library providing
compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard
Scheme implementations.
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html

GNU CLISP 2.44 / 2008-02-03

ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose
programming language.
http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/

GNU Libtool 1.5.26 / 2008-02-01

GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared
libraries behind a consistent, portable interface.

If you have any comments or questions regarding this
compilation, contact Henrik Sandklef