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Linux-Announce Digest #93
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Linux-Announce Digest #93, Volume #5 Wed, 6 Apr 2005 07:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Announcing Zephyr Automated Test Runne (Degarrah)
STklos 0.61 - a Scheme compiler/interpreter (Erick Gallesio)
GnuTLS 1.2.1 (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
[FSFE PR][EN] Software patents putting International Financial Report ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
CK-ERP v.0.12.1 released (C K Wu)
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From: info@degarrah.com (Degarrah)
Subject: Announcing Zephyr Automated Test Runne
Date: 5 Apr 2005 17:30:05 GMT
Zephyr Automated Test Runner v1.0.0
Zephyr is an automated functional and regression testing tool. It will
test any application, written in any language, that has a GUI
interface. Zephyr takes the place of a user: Pointing, clicking and
entering text.
Demo movie and download available at:
http://www.degarrah.com/zephyr.php
Features:
- There is no need to know programming or learn a scripting language
to use Zephyr.
- It's simple to build tests using Zephyr's intuitive drag and drop
interface.
- Each test case and action is easily copied or moved with the click
of a mouse to allow for maximum reusability.
- Zephyr is fully automated to give you maximum test coverage.
- Functional and regression tests run hundreds of times faster than
testing manually.
- Zephyr records memory usage when running each test action. This
allows test engineers to identify memory leaks as they occur.
- Using Zephyr reduces human error normally associated with manual
testing.
System Requirements:
- Linux : GTK+ 2 or higher
- Windows : 2000, XP
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From: Erick Gallesio <eg_@_unice.fr>
Subject: STklos 0.61 - a Scheme compiler/interpreter
Date: 5 Apr 2005 21:40:05 GMT
Reply-To: eg@news56rd.b1.woo, --@news56rd.b1.woo, at@news56rd.b1.woo,
This is an announce for the 0.61 release of STklos.
STklos is a free Scheme System (nearly) conform to R5RS. The aim of this
implementation is to be fast as well as light. The implementation is
based on an ad-hoc Virtual Machine. STklos can also be compiled as a
library, so that one can easily embeds it in an application.
The salient points of STklos are:
* efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS providing
- Multiple Inheritance,
- Generic Functions,
- Multi-methods
- an efficient MOP (Meta Object Protocol)
* a simple to use module system
* implements the full tower of numbers defined in R5RS
* easy connection to the GTK+ toolkit
* Perl compatible regular expressions thanks to the PCRE package.
* tail recursive calls are properly implemented
Changes in this release:
* Documentation is updated
* Distribution uses now PCRE 5.0 for regexp
* Build process has changed
* Perfomance improvement thanks to VM and I/O optimizations
* Added a way to download and install STklos extensions
* Better error signaling on undefined variables when compiling files
* Minor enhancements:
o Some corrections in the reader
o Parameter objects SRFI-39 (Parameters objects) can be used
now in generalized set! SRFI-17 (Generalized set!)
o Reader can be case-sensitive now (the system can be
bootstraped using case sensitive read)
o ...
* New primitives
o eval-from-string
o require/provide
o read-chars
o read-chars!
o write-chars
o get-password
* Implementation of SRFI-60 (Integers as bits)
* Bug fixes
Homepage/Download: See http://www.stklos.net/
--
Erick Gallesio | tel: +33 (0)492965153
Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis | fax: +33 (0)492965155
ESSI - I3S -- 930, Route des colles | mailto:eg--at--unice.fr
BP 145 - 06903 Sophia Antipolis CEDEX - FRANCE
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GnuTLS 1.2.1 (fwd)
Date: 5 Apr 2005 22:50:02 GMT
========== Forwarded message ==========
We are pleased to announce the availability of GnuTLS 1.2.1!
This is a bugfix release on the 1.2.x branch. This release is
intended to be stable and we recommend all GnuTLS users to upgrade.
Improving GnuTLS is costly, but you can help! We are looking for
organizations that find GnuTLS useful and wish to contribute back.
You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, or donate
money or equipment.
Commercial support contracts for GnuTLS are available, and they help
finance continued maintenance. Simon Josefsson Datakonsult, a
privately owned company located in Stockholm, is currently funding
GnuTLS maintenance, and is always looking for interesting development
projects.
If you need help to use GnuTLS, or want to help others, you are
invited to join our help-gnutls mailing list, see:
<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls>.
The project page of the library is available at:
http://www.gnutls.org/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/
http://josefsson.org/gnutls/ (updated fastest)
Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/devel/gnutls-1.2.1.tar.bz2 (2.4MB)
http://josefsson.org/gnutls/releases/gnutls-1.2.1.tar.bz2 (2.4MB)
Here are GPG detached signatures signed using key 0xB565716F:
ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/devel/gnutls-1.2.1.tar.bz2.sig
http://josefsson.org/gnutls/releases/gnutls-1.2.1.tar.bz2.sig
Here are the build reports for various platforms:
http://josefsson.org/autobuild-logs/gnutls.html
Here are the MD5/SHA1 checksums:
6445383421a06b9db3fa83bf6802677e809f2440 gnutls-1.2.1.tar.bz2
f2e0367e538c21c98a342bf019b2a4cb37158af4 gnutls-1.2.1.tar.gz
dbc24634ea62b5f3bee45662c2a29f05 gnutls-1.2.1.tar.bz2
8b585f864fa3fe07389e6f322eff39e2 gnutls-1.2.1.tar.gz
Noteworthy changes since version 1.2.0:
- gnutls_bye() will no longer fail when RDWR is used and application
data are available for reading.
- Added more strict checks for the SRP parameters (g,n), when they
are not in the included list.
- Added warning to certtool when MD5 is being used for digital
signatures.
- Optimizations ("-O2 -finline-functions") are not enabled by default,
instead the standard autoconf defaults are used. Use `./configure
CFLAGS="-O2 -finline-functions"' to get the old optimizations.
- Added the option --get-dh-params to certtool, in order to get the
included in the library primes and generators.
- Improved the semantics of GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_X509_V1_CA_CRT, to
allow only trusted Version 1 CAs and introduced
GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_ANY_X509_V1_CA_CRT which has the old semantics.
- Nettle self tests now build properly, reported by Pierre
<pierre42d@9online.fr>.
- Eliminated some memory leaks in DHE and RSA-EXPORT cipher suites.
Reported by Yoann Vandoorselaere <yoann@prelude-ids.org>.
- Added the functions:
gnutls_x509_crt_list_import(),
gnutls_x509_crq_get_attribute_by_oid(),
gnutls_x509_crq_set_attribute_by_oid() and
gnutls_x509_crt_set_extension_by_oid().
- If the library has been compiled with features disabled, a warning is
issued during the compilation of any program.
Enjoy,
Nikos and Simon
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http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] Software patents putting International Financial Report
Date: 5 Apr 2005 23:00:03 GMT
========== Forwarded message ==========
The European Information & Communications Technology Industry
Association (EICTA) combines 32 national ICT/CE associations
from 24 European countries with 48 direct company
members. EICTA altogether represents more than 10.000
enterprises in Europe with more than 2 million employees and
revenues of over ??? 200 billion. The Association supports the
monopolisation of software ideas heavily. Mr Provoost is
president of Eicta and represents Philips Consumer Electronics
as Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer.
Dear Mr. Provoost,
The European Council and European Commission are pushing for the
introduction of software patents in Europe to such an extent and in such
ways that they raise justified doubts in the democratic roots of Europe.
Your association, the European Information & Communications Technology
Industry Association (EICTA) has strongly supported this agenda in the
past. In the discussion, you raised the argument that "We must be
allowed to protect out innovations."
This statement we fully agree with. However, if you believe that
software patents help protect innovation, it seems you were being
misinformed, as the role of software patents is not to protect, but to
prevent innovation. Bill Gates pointed this out in an internal Microsoft
memo in 1991:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of
today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry
would be at a complete stand-still today."
He said this because he understood that patents on software inevitably
are monopolies on abstract logic and ideas.
If Pythagoras was to come up with his theorem today, in a software
patent regime he would clearly be entitled to get a monopoly on
it. Pythagoras could then arbitrarily select the conditions under
which others could make use of or build upon his idea.
Software usually embodies literally thousands of abstract ideas. Under
a software patent regime, each of these could be turned into a
monopoly and would constitute a no-go zone for competitors. That is why
Bill Gates also said:
"A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay
whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be
high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future
competitors."
In other words: software patents are an anti-competitive tool that
serves to raise the burden on innovation. The height of that barrier
is flexible and can easily be raised to trip established companies,
such as Philips, and innovative newcomers alike.
In previous letters we have explained how software patents cost jobs
and economic power in Europe. Today we would like to inform you how
they pose a threat to the International Financial Reporting Standards
(IFRS) [1] as all the ideas used in these standards will be implemented
in software and would therefore be patentable. This will affect all
European companies as the IFRS rules have been mandatory to all listed
companies in the European Union since 2002.
If you check the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database, you
will find that there are already hundreds of patents on software ideas
concerning expressions like "account" or "financial report". One of
them protects a system "for financial planning and advice" [2]. That
particular patent is held by American Express Financial Corporation
(Amex) - a company which we know better for its credit cards than its
innovative software.
After establishing a legal basis for software patents in Europe, Amex
might arbitrarily choose to determine which software company is
allowed to implement the IFRS or similar standards.
This of course assumes that none of Amex' competitors has an interest
in blocking such development and uses their patent on another
necessary idea to stop the development. But even if no one does: As all
systems have many components in common and the number of methods to
make computer systems secure is limited, any such software would
always be less secure in a software patent regime.
People in Europe often seem to look to the United States for economic
advice. This time, the CEO of Computer Associates, John Swainson, has
made the message remarkably clear: Europe should not introduce
software patents. [3]
Copyright provides a very efficient protection for computer software,
but in order for Copyright to protect your innovation, you first need
to have an innovation. That is why we hope EICTA will stand up and
oppose software patents because: "We must be allowed to innovate."
Yours sincerely,
Georg Greve
President
Free Software Foundation Europe
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifrs
[2]
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=7&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1='accounting+standards'&OS=%22accounting+standards%22&RS=%22accounting+standards%22
[3] http://www.ftd.de/tm/it/1110009214683.html?nv=sl
About the Free Software Foundation Europe:
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a charitable
non-governmental organisation dedicated to all aspects of Free
Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate
in a digital society. Therefore the Freedoms to use, copy, modify and
redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition-
allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness
for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and
giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are
central issues of the FSFE. The FSFE was founded in 2001 as the
European sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation in the
United States.
Further information: http://www.fsfeurope.org
--
Joachim Jakobs <jj@pr-profi.com>
PR-Berater, www.pr-profi.com
Heinrich-Heine-Str. 3, Tel.: 0179/6919565
67134 Birkenheide
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Press-release@fsfeurope.org
https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release
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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:32:03 CST
From: ckwu@cheerful.com (C K Wu)
Subject: CK-ERP v.0.12.1 released
A new release, v.0.12.1, of CK-ERP, has been posted at
SourceForge.Net, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp . The new
feature of this release is the implementation of the new contact
infrastructure among the HR modules.
This release has been tested against eGroupWare 1.0.0.006 . For
Chinese GUI users, after normal installation, please go through,
[CK-ERP Administration module -> Admin/Setup -> 3 - convert
big5/gb18030 to utf-8] to generate utf-8 Chinese lang files. Then, go
through egroupware's setup Step 4 - Language Management to
(re-)install the newly generated utf-8 Chinese lang files.
CK-ERP is an open source accounting/ERP/CRM system that runs on top of
eGroupWare. It comprises 19 modules - Admin, Contact Management,
Customer Relationship, Customer Self Service, Vendor Relationship,
Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO,
Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for Manager, HR, Staff Self Service
and Payroll. Operating platform can either be LAMP or LAPP. It
provides accounting and back office functionalities to SMEs and
utilizes egw to administer accounts/groups. Please report error and
suggestion to the discussion group / mailing list,
CK-ERP-en@googlegroups.com or CK-ERP-zh_CN@googlegroups.com .
General history and expected development is available at the
discussion group's Archive.
Demo is located at,
http://ck-erp.sourceforge.net (English)
http://www.ck-erp.org (Simplified Chinese)
Download is available from,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp
http://gro.clinux.org/projects/ck-ledger
http://cosoft.org.cn/projects/ck-ledger
http://sf.linuxforum.net/projects/ck-ledger
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