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Weekly EPEL Summary
Week 50/2007
Most important happenings
- Lots of new packages (see below) -- most of them afaics thx to the wishlist processing; roozbeh added a bunch of perl-packages (some for example needed for rt3) to the wishlist; Fedora owners got a mail for those as well.
Mailing list
Noteworthy discussions
Meeting
Next Meeting
20071219 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
Last weeks meeting
Non scheduled
Stats
General
Number of EPEL Contributors: 155
We welcome 12 new contributors: abompard garrick grenier jnovy mbarnes mgarski mso nhorman pawsa s4504kr somlo wwoods
EPEL 5
Number of source packages: 890
Number of binary packages: 1649
There are 40 new Packages:
- aalib | ASCII art library
- antiword | MS Word to ASCII/Postscript converter
- balsa | Mail Client
- bogofilter | Fast anti-spam filtering by Bayesian statistical analysis
- brasero | Gnome CD/DVD burning application
- bsdiff | Binary diff/patch utility
- codeblocks | An open source, cross platform, free C++ IDE
- ddd | GUI for several command-line debuggers
- dkms | Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework
- dvdisaster | Additional error protection for CD/DVD media
- enca | Character set analyzer and detector
- enigma | Clone of the ATARI game Oxyd
- g2clib | GRIB2 encoder/decoder and search/indexing routines in C
- gstreamer-python | Python bindings for GStreamer
- gtranslator | Gettext po file editor for GNOME
- gxine | GTK frontend for the xine multimedia library
- inkscape | Vector-based drawing program using SVG
- iozone | Filesystem benchmarking utility
- iperf | Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance
- kyum | Graphical User Frontend (GUI) for yum
- libburn | Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs
- libesmtp | SMTP client library
- libkexiv2 | A library to manipulate EXIF/IPTC information
- libtunepimp | A library for creating MusicBrainz enabled tagging applications
- netdump-server | Server for network kernel message logging and crash dumps
- pcapdiff | Compares packet captures, detects forged, dropped or mangled packets
- perl-Authen-SASL | SASL Authentication framework for Perl
- perl-GSSAPI | Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2 library
- perl-IO-Interface | Perl extension for accessing network card configuration information
- perl-Parse-Yapp | Perl extension for generating and using LALR parsers
- perl-XML-XQL | Perl module for querying XML tree structures with XQL
- phpldapadmin | Web-based tool for managing LDAP servers
- php-pear-Image-GraphViz | Interface to AT&T's GraphViz tools
- pygpgme | Python module for working with OpenPGP messages
- python-fpconst | Python module for handling IEEE 754 floating point special values
- shorewall | An iptables front end for firewall configuration
- snake | Smart Network Automated Kickstart Environment
- SOAPpy | Full-featured SOAP library for Python
- taglib | Audio Meta-Data Library
- testdisk | Tool to check and undelete partition
EPEL 4
Number of source packages: 503
Number of binary packages: 973
There are 32 new Packages:
- aalib | An ASCII art library.
- bsdiff | Binary diff/patch utility
- dkms | Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework
- dvdisaster | Additional error protection for CD/DVD media
- enca | Character set analyzer and detector
- enigma | Clone of the ATARI game Oxyd
- g2clib | GRIB2 encoder/decoder and search/indexing routines in C
- gtranslator | Gettext po file editor for GNOME
- inkscape | Vector-based drawing program using SVG
- iozone | Filesystem benchmarking utility
- iperf | Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance
- net6 | A TCP protocol abstraction for library C++
- obby | A library which provides synced document buffers
- perl-Authen-SASL | SASL Authentication framework for Perl
- perl-GSSAPI | Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2 library
- perl-IO-Interface | Perl extension for accessing network card configuration information
- phpldapadmin | Web-based tool for managing LDAP servers
- plotutils | GNU vector and raster graphics utilities and libraries
- python-cherrypy | A pythonic, object-oriented web development framework
- python-decoratortools | Use class and function decorators -- even in Python 2.3
- python-formencode | HTML form validation, generation, and convertion package
- python-json | A JSON reader and writer for Python
- python-nose | A discovery-based unittest extension for Python
- python-paste-script | A pluggable command-line frontend
- python-ruledispatch | A generic function package for Python
- python-sqlobject | SQLObject -Object-Relational Manager, aka database wrapper
- python-tgfastdata | Automatic user interface generation for TurboGears
- python-turbojson | Python template plugin that supports json
- python-turbokid | Python template plugin that supports Kid templates
- shorewall | An iptables front end for firewall configuration
- testdisk | Tool to check and undelete partition
- TurboGears | Back-to-front web development in Python