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Date: 2004-12-23 13:13:03
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Linux-Announce Digest #989, Volume #4 Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:13:03 EST
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[FSFE PR][EN] A great day for SAMBA, Free Software and Europe (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Guile 1.6.7 has been released. (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
GNU Gengetopt 2.13 (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:24:11 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] A great day for SAMBA, Free Software and Europe (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
"Those who value freedom and competition have received two nice
Christmas gifts this week. First, new EU member Poland does not allow
the introduction of innovation- and job-killer software patents
through the diplomatic back-door. And now the European Court decides
that Microsoft should not get another four years to further harm its
competition" says Georg Greve, President of the Free Software Foundation
Europe (FSFE).
Bo Versterdorf, President of the European Court, has today rejected
Microsoft's appeal to delay execution of the sanctions. Microsoft has
been forced by European Commission to publish technical information
about the interfaces of their Windows operating system to enable
competitors to reach interoperability between their systems and Windows.
While the software giant claimed that following the tradition of the
technical industry to publish formats and standards will do irreparable
harm to them judge Bo Vesterdorf agreed with European Commission and
FSFE that this was not a convincing thesis.
Legal and technical competence brought by the Samba Team and FSFE in the
process helped the European Commission to resist to the attack of
the most important law firms in Europe. The Free Software community,
represented by lawyer Carlo Piana, kept defending european consumers and
the interests of European citizens and of all companies that base their
business on Free Software.
"Microsoft now will have to explain how they have arbitrarily modified
public standards they use in their servers and work hard to re-establish
competition in the small server market. On the other end we are sure
that it is an opportunity for the market to compete on quality of code
and services, respecting interoperability" says Carlo Piana.
"This is a great success of an international community that is really
able to coordinate and obtain excellent results: technical, legal and
political. We have always thought that Microsoft's arguments were
poor and we are glad we were able to explain this to the judge so well"
says Stefano Maffulli, Italian Chancellor of the FSFE.
But this success did in fact cost something: the FSFE, who played
an important role in the decision, was only able to put this much
resources into these cases due to the ongoing financial support from the
Free Software community as well as from several companies. "The more
donations we get, the more we will be able to extend our engagement for
Europe's freedom from monopolisation", Stefano Maffulli concludes.
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:47:17 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Guile 1.6.7 has been released. (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
We are pleased to announce the availability of a new Guile release.
This is the next maintenance release for the 1.6 stable series.
You can find it here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.6.7.tar.gz.
Guile is Project GNU's extension language library, an interpreter for
Scheme, packaged as a library that you can link into your applications
to give them their own scripting language. Guile should eventually
support other languages as well, giving users of Guile-based
applications a choice of languages.
This is primarily a bugfix release. Highlights include:
- A build problem has been fixed. Previously, on some systems, the
build would fail when libguile-ltdl couldn't be found during the
build.
- The array-map! and array-map-in-order! functions now allow a
single source argument. In prior versions, calls with just one
source array were rejected.
- A string->number overflow for bases other than 2, 10 and 16 has
been fixed. Among other things, this affected octal literal
constants.
- The argument order for the equality predicate passed to the SRFI-1
functions alist-delete and alist-delete! now matches the SRFI-1
specification.
- In accordance with the SRFI-13 specification, the functions
string-any and string-every now make a tail call to their
predicate function upon reaching the last character in the string.
The Guile WWW page is located at
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
It contains a link to the Guile FAQ and pointers to the mailing lists,
among other things.
Any bugs found in this release will be addressed by further bugfix
releases numbered 1.6.*. The next stable Guile release with
significant functional improvements will be version 1.8.0.
In between 1.6.x and 1.8.x, you can follow Guile development in CVS
and in the Guile mailing lists (see ANON-CVS and HACKING). Guile
builds from the development branch of CVS will have version number
1.7.0.
Guile versions with an odd middle number, i.e. 1.5.* are unstable
development versions. Even middle numbers indicate stable versions.
This has been the case since the 1.3.* series.
Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
--
Rob Browning
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:50:49 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNU Gengetopt 2.13 (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
GNU Gengetopt 2.13 has been released. It is available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gengetopt/ and mirrors of that site (see list of
mirror sites at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).
GNU Gengetopt generates a C function that uses getopt_long function
to parse the command line options, validate them and fill a
struct.
Version 2.13
* texinfo documentation
* fixed some warnings (thanks to Gyozo Papp)
* fixed other problems with option manipulation in config files
(thanks to Gyozo Papp)
* list of acceptable values for options
* function to explicitly check whether a required option has
been provided
* group options can be multiple, and can have an
optional argument
* further memory leaks in the generated code have been removed
(thanks to Michael Hagemann)
* section definition can be multiline too
(thanks to Gyozo Papp)
Visit the Gengetopt home page at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt
Anonymous CVS access is available. Please visit
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gengetopt/
where you can find detailed descriptions of how to access the CVS
(read-only). Release-candidate versions are available
through CVS.
Bug reports should go to bug-gengetopt@gnu.org.
The following mailing lists are available:
* help-gengetopt@gnu.org, for generic discussions about the program
and for asking for help about it (open mailing list),
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gengetopt
* info-gengetopt@gnu.org , for receiving information about new
releases and features (read-only mailing list),
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gengetopt
if you want to subscribe to a mailing list just go to the URL and follow
the instructions or just send me an e-mail.
cheers
Lorenzo
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