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Linux-Announce Digest #512, Volume #4 Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:13:04 EDT
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ANNOUNCE: SCons 0.92 fixes a potentially critical Win32 bug (Steven Knight)
[school-discuss] Promotional activities in Mexico (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
GNULinuxinEducation ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: SCons 0.92 fixes a potentially critical Win32 bug
Date: 21 Aug 2003 03:10:09 GMT
SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or make tool) written
in Python. It is based on the design which won the Software Carpentry
build tool competition in August 2000.
Version 0.92 of SCons has been released and is available for download
from the SCons web site:
http://www.scons.org/
Or through the download link at the SCons project page at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/
RPM and Debian packages and a Win32 installer are all available, in
addition to the traditional .tar.gz and .zip files.
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE?
Release 0.92 contains an important fix for a critical bug found shortly
after SCons 0.91 was released, plus two other fixes.
SCons 0.91 contains a bug that prevents SCons from working on Win32
systems unless either the Microsoft Visual Studio linker (link.exe)
or the GCC linker is installed, or a custom-defined linker is used.
This bug has been fixed in release 0.92.
This bug does not cause incorrect builds and does not damage a source
tree or build tree in any way. Anyone with either the Visual Studio or
GCC linker installed on their Win32 system, or using a custom-defined
linker, will never see this bug and could continue to use 0.91 without
any serious repercussions or side effects.
Release 0.92 contains two other fixes:
- Support for the PharLap linker was not working properly in 0.91,
and has been fixed.
- When the YACC -o option was used to specify an output file with
a different basename than the source file, SCons would mistakenly
think that the basename of the generated .h file should match the
source file, not the target file. This has been fixed.
Additionally, the Debian (.deb) package available from the SCons web site
or SourceForge project page has been updated to match the dependencies
and other particulars of the (out of date) Debian package available from
debian.org. In particular, the package is now dependent on Python 2.2
instead of Python 2.1.
ABOUT SCONS
Distinctive features of SCons include:
- a global view of all dependencies; no multiple passes to get
everything built properly
- configuration files are Python scripts, allowing the full use of a
real scripting language to solve difficult build problems
- a modular architecture allows the SCons Build Engine to be
embedded in other Python software
- the ability to scan files for implicit dependencies (#include files);
- improved parallel build (-j) support that provides consistent
build speedup regardless of source tree layout
- use of MD5 signatures to decide if a file has really changed; no
need to "touch" files to fool make that something is up-to-date
- easily extensible through user-defined Builder and Scanner objects
- build actions can be Python code, as well as external commands
An scons-users mailing list is available for those interested in getting
started using SCons. You can subscribe at:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scons-users
Alternatively, we invite you to subscribe to the low-volume
scons-announce mailing list to receive notification when new versions of
SCons become available:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scons-announce
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to Charles Crain, Gary Oberbrunner and Gerard Patel for
their contributions to this release.
On behalf of the SCons team,
--SK
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: [school-discuss] Promotional activities in Mexico (fwd)
Date: 21 Aug 2003 05:45:01 GMT
>From "M. en T.E. Alejandro Diaz Infante" <linux@enmac.net>
========== Forwarded message ==========
The ENMAC LUG of Zacatecas, Mexico, is going to offer the inaugural speech in
the Second Festival GNU/Linux and Free Software, to be held in Guadalajara,
Mexico. (http://fsl.glo.org.mx/programa.php). We were invited to do it
because the slogan of the event is "Educación Libre con Software Libre"
("Free Education with Free Software").
As members of SEUL/edu and SchoolForge, we plan our presentation as follows:
-The results of seven uninterrupted years of use of Linux in Escuela Normal
"Manuel Avila Camacho" (our school)
-Demonstration of our old educative multimedia program (and unfortunately
never released!), "My Multimedia Book of Mexican History"
-Presentation for the first time of our upcoming multimedia title, "CircusTux
*First Grade Math for Linux*"
-Other samples of use of Linux in the world: the government and educative
successes. The contents of the SEUL/edu casestudy.
-The activity of SEUL/edu and Schoolforge as coalitions to promote the use of
Linux in education.
-The contents of the SEUL/edu application index.
-A round of questions and answers.
Wish us luck next September 3!
Alejandro Diaz Infante
Coordinator of ENMAC Linux User Group
Zacatecas, Mexico.
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNULinuxinEducation
Date: 21 Aug 2003 07:15:01 GMT
Some useful links (please check if still active, as these have been keyed
in, there could be some typos)
get http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-ed/
o GNU/Linux in education
get http://www.thestuph.com/litc/
o GNU/Linux in the classroom
get http://www.linuxforkids.com
o Just as its name says, LinuxForKids
get http://matterial.sourceforge.net/
o Free/open source collection of s/w tools for artists
get http://material.sourceforge.net/
o Not sure if this URL or above is right
get http://www.ibiblio.org/obp
o Open book project
get http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/
o K12 GNU/Linux in schools project
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get http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Projects/Education
Very interesting set of links! (URL might need joining)
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get http://opensourceschools.org
o Just what it's name says
get http://www.bluelinux.org/
o Easy to use and administer distro for schools
get http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
o Debian junior (work in progress)
get http://www.freecourse.sourceforge.net
o Free computing curriculum project
get http://www.ganeshas-project.or
o GNU/Linux training for schools in Nepal
get http://www.goasudharop.org/gscp
o Supporting schools in Goa, India
get http://www.gnuskole.dk
o Promoting the OS in Danish primary school system, by publishing
documentation, finding and translating educational software, and holding a
discussion forum for teachers and system admins at school
get http://termserv.berlios.de/
o Making network administration easier on older PCs
get http://www.itp.innoved.org/projects/freesoftware.html
o Free software for Latin America
[If you sent the above to www4mail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de, you would be able
to retrive the pages above -- not entire sites -- via email to your
address. Try it out. Specially useful in low-bandwidth areas. -FN]
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