Gap Penalty

Pyrex is a Language for Writing Python Extension Modules. Pyrex is a language specially designed for writing Python extension modules. Its designed to bridge the gap between the nice, high-level, easy-to-use world of Python and the messy, low-level world of C. You may be wondering why anyone... Platforms: *nix

Dee-Python project is an implementation of a truly relational database language with Python. Inspired by Date and Darwens Third Manifesto, it addresses the problems of impedance mismatch between programming languages and databases and the weakness of SQL. Mind The Gap Most of todays programs... Platforms: *nix

The c prototyping tools library consists of implementations for several widely used data structures and patterns as well as rudimentary tcp / httpd functionality. Object oriented development environments usually feature readymade implementations of such tools. cprops provides standard generic... Platforms: *nix

Set::Integer::Gapfillers is a Perl module that can fill in the gaps between integer ranges. SYNOPSIS use Set::Integer::Gapfillers; $gf = Set::Integer::Gapfillers->new( lower => -12, upper => 62, sets => [ [ 1, 17 ], # Note: Use comma, not [ 25, 42 ], # range operator (..) [ 44, 50 ],... Platforms: *nix

File::Mirror is a Perl extension for recursive directory copy. SYNOPSIS use File::Mirror; # recurvie copy /path/A to /path/B mirror /path/A, /path/B; # or do things you like recursive { my ($from, $to) = @_; copy($from, $to) } /path/A, /path/B; File::Mirror provides two helper... Platforms: *nix

ipset pakcage is a framework inside the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel, which can be administered by the ipset utility. Depending on the type, currently an IP set may store IP addresses, (TCP/UDP) port numbers or IP addresses with MAC addresses in a way, which ensures lightning speed when... Platforms: *nix

MillScript projetc is a full featured, yet easy to use language for the batch production of templated Web sites. The language is a Java-based, early implementation of Spice: an experimental language developed by the OpenSpice group. MillScript benefits from a carefully considered and... Platforms: *nix

Net::DNS::ZoneFile is a Perl extension to convert a zone file to a collection of RRs. SYNOPSIS use Net::DNS::ZoneFile; my $rrset = Net::DNS::ZoneFile->read($filename[, $root]); print $_->string . "n" for @$rrset; my $rrset = Net::DNS::ZoneFile->readfh($fh[, $root]); # OR my $rrset =... Platforms: *nix

Liferea is a news aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for... Platforms: *nix

While Digikam is a great app for managing your images, it lacks a good and fast image viewer in my opinion. Unfortunately, the fastest image viewer for KDE, Kuickshow, is not available as KIPI plugin. Therefore I wrote this plugin to fill that gap. KIPI Plugin: OpenGL Image Viewer KDE-Apps.org... Platforms: *nix

Lfyre is a programming language and the interactive compiler for the same language. Its key features are flexibility, performance and simplicity. For instance, lfyre code can be compiled or interpreted and can define new language keywords and operators. Lfyre programming language and... Platforms: *nix

Flock of Birds Library (libfob) provides an interface to the Flock of Birds hardware. Tedious and error prone tasks such as configuring the flocks data mode, sending commands to the flock, and decoding the data received from the flock are all hidden behind libfobs interface. Programming the... Platforms: *nix

Berkeley DB Java Edition is a high performance, transactional storage engine written entirely in Java. Like the highly successful Berkeley DB product, Berkeley DB Java Edition executes in the address space of the application, without the overhead of client/server communication. Berkeley DB Java... Platforms: *nix

xmms-cueinfo is a plugin for XMMS that adds support for reading cue files. Cue files describe what tracks a single audio file contains, including performer and title information. This makes it possible to rip a full CD into a single audio file. (The reason people do this is because of the... Platforms: *nix

Frameworks is stop-motion animation frame capture software primarily for Linux. It captures images from a camera and strings them together into an animation. These still images may then be combined into a single video file using other software. Only video4linux webcams are currently supported;... Platforms: *nix

Aqualung is a music player for the GNU/Linux operating system. Aqualung plays audio files from your filesystem and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks. Heres how the test looks like. Pick a song that you know really well, something thats in your bones like Siberian... Platforms: *nix

String::Tokenizer is a simple string tokenizer. SYNOPSIS use String::Tokenizer; # create the tokenizer and tokenize input my $tokenizer = String::Tokenizer->new("((5+5) * 10)", +*()); # create tokenizer my $tokenizer = String::Tokenizer->new(); # ... then tokenize the string... Platforms: *nix

getAbsPath is a C header (getAbsPath.h) or an ANSI C tool (getAbsPath) which converts relative unix/win32 pathes to absolute ones. getAbsPath uses current working directory (CWD) as basis. Use it e.g. for finding out the current path of a shell script. EXAMPLE: find out the current path of... Platforms: *nix

Cache::Bounded is a size-aware in-memory cache optimized for speed. SYNOPSIS Cache::Bounded is designed for caching items into memory in a very fast but rudimentarily size-aware fashion. Most intelligent caches take either a size-aware or use-aware approach. They do so by either anlysing... Platforms: *nix

Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents (toc-file). Recording in disk-at-once mode writes the complete disc, i.e. lead-in, one or more tracks and lead-out, in a single step. The commonly used track-at-once (TAO) mode writes... Platforms: *nix