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Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/09/06/
freshmeat.net newsgroup: news:///fm.announce

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (27) :::

[001] - aria2 0.15.3
[002] - aTunes 1.10.0RC
[003] - Botan 1.7.10 (Development)
[004] - cfunge 0.3.1
[005] - fastcgi++ 1.0
[006] - Fire.fm 1.1.2
[007] - Gnac 0.1.1
[008] - JLanguageLearn 1.2.5
[009] - Locked Area 6.2 (Lite)
[010] - Lynis 1.2.1
[011] - mididings 20080905
[012] - OpenCrypt 1.6
[013] - OpenLayers 2.7 RC1
[014] - ora2pg 4.8
[015] - Pyjamas-Desktop 0.1
[016] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.12
[017] - rst2pdf 0.7
[018] - SILC Client 1.1.5
[019] - Snd 10.0
[020] - Sockso 1.0.7
[021] - Sound-Rec-Ed 1.3
[022] - Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.24
[023] - The Contiki Operating System 2.2.1
[024] - Votorola 0.1.11
[025] - Weblog 1.0
[026] - xmonad 0.8
[027] - Zero Install Injector 0.36


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[001] - aria2 0.15.3
by SlotGazer (http://freshmeat.net/users/slotgazer/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 21:39

Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols
are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. It has a powerful segmented
downloading ability, downloading a file from multiple sources and multiple
protocols and utilizing your download bandwidth to the maximum. It supports
downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while
the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm.
Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of
data while downloading a file like BitTorrent.

Changes: This release fixes the bug in chunk checksum validation and an
infinite loop in FTP downloads and a segmentation fault when downloading
gzipped files from Metalink. The Turkish translation was added and the
German and Russian translations were updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aria2/

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[002] - aTunes 1.10.0RC
by fleax (http://freshmeat.net/users/fleax/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:08

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: aTunes is a full-featured audio player and organizer, with some
ripping and encoding tools included. It supports MP3, Ogg, WMA, WAV, FLAC,
and MP4.

Changes: GUI performance was improved. Support for Xine was added. A
search feature was added in device and favorites. A Swedish translation was
added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atunes/

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[003] - Botan 1.7.10 (Development)
by Jack Lloyd (http://freshmeat.net/users/randombit/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:22

Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms. It includes a
wide selection of cryptographic algorithms (including AES, DES, SHA-1, RSA,
and DSA, among many others). It also support X.509 certificates and several
common certificate-related formats and protocols. It has a high level
interface, is easily portable to most systems and compilers, and includes a
substantial tutorial and API reference.

Changes: BigInt now caches the significant word count, and the right shift
operator was optimized slightly. The public key benchmarks were rewritten
to more accurately reflect real world usage and to have a new set of timer
options available. A set of larger DSA and MODP groups were added.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/botan/

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[004] - cfunge 0.3.1
by AnMaster (http://freshmeat.net/users/AnTux/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:29

Software Development :: Interpreters

About: cfunge is a fast interpreter for the Befunge98 esoteric language.
It is standard conforming.

Changes: Two new fingerprints were added: SOCK and SCKE. The build system
was fixed, so it now works on compilers other than GCC and it has better
out of tree build support. There are also some smaller bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cfunge/

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[005] - fastcgi++ 1.0
by Eddie (http://freshmeat.net/users/EddieOfTheRocks/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:27

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries

About: fastcgi++ is a C++ library for developing Web applications in C++
with the FastCGI protocol. This library does not support the old CGI
protocol. It effectively manages simultaneous requests without the need for
multiple threads. Session data is organized into meaningful data types as
opposed to a series of text strings. Internationalization and Unicode
support is another priority.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fastcgipp/

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[006] - Fire.fm 1.1.2
by jorge (http://freshmeat.net/users/jorgevillalobos/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 20:33

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: Fire.fm is a Firefox extension to access the extensive music
library on Last.fm. It lets you listen to music related to your favorite
artist and discover new artists and music in the process. It can also be
used to listen to your friend's favorite music and to find Last.fm users
with musical taste similar to your own. Your favorite stations can be
accessed quickly by typing a few letters into the location bar. The
auto-play feature begins playing the last station you played when you
closed Firefox.

Changes: A Galician translation was added. A major "blocked by
application" bug was fixed. Scrobbling was fixed for users with upper and
lower case user names. Menu images on the Mac that were causing crashes
were removed. Some bugs that were causing Master Password users a great
deal of unnecessary password prompts were fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/firefm/

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[007] - Gnac 0.1.1
by Benoit Dupasquier (http://freshmeat.net/users/bdupasqu/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:18

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: Gnac is an easy-to-use audio conversion program for the GNOME
desktop. It is designed to be powerful but simple. It provides easy audio
file conversion between all GStreamer supported audio formats.

Changes: Some code refactoring was done. For example, the conversion
library has been partly rewritten. The way the progress bar is updated was
improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnac/

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[008] - JLanguageLearn 1.2.5
by Sebastian Parkitny (http://freshmeat.net/users/sparkitny/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 21:12

Education
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: JLanguageLearn is a generic language course. It is based on Java
and XML. You can define your own lessons in an easy way, and lessons are
displayed in a graphical user interface. An editor is included for creating
lessons.

Changes: This version contains some minor improvements in the editor and
refactored code to improve stability. The editor is now capable of deleting
a selected lesson and refreshing the currently stored lessons.

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jlanguagelearn/

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[009] - Locked Area 6.2 (Lite)
by Neil Skirrow (http://freshmeat.net/users/skirrow/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:05

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: Locked Area is a highly sophisticated password protection and
membership management system. It has been designed to be as secure as
possible while it still runs hands-free with no input from the Webmaster
needed. Locked Area uses Apache's .htaccess and .htpasswd along with DES
randomized salt or MD5 encryption of passwords for increased security. It
also includes a member database that lets the administrator maintain a
mailing list along with the member's area.

Changes: Various issues with MySQL database mode have been fixed.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lockedarea/

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[010] - Lynis 1.2.1
by M. Boelen (http://freshmeat.net/users/MBoelen/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:19

Security :: Forensics
System :: Diagnostics

About: Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans systems
to detect software and security issues. Beside security related
information, it will also scan for general system information, installed
packages, and possible configuration mistakes. The software aims in
assisting automated auditing, software patch management, and vulnerability
and malware scanning of Unix based systems.

Changes: This release adds support for SELinux, Samba, PAM, and password
expire checks. A new option (--tests) is available to run specific audit
tests only. Beside the new additions, lots of small issues were solved.
Logging, reporting, and screen output were improved.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lynis/

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[011] - mididings 20080905
by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 20:43

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI

About: mididings is a MIDI router and processor for ALSA or JACK MIDI.
It's implemented as a Python module, thereby offering a powerful and
flexible means to set up patches, while the actual MIDI processing code is
written in C++.

Changes: This release features experimental support for JACK MIDI. A new
submodule, mididings.extra, was added. This includes, among other things, a
diatonic harmonizer. The example scripts were completely rewritten to be
more comprehensible and to make use of newer features.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mididings/

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[012] - OpenCrypt 1.6
by Neil Skirrow (http://freshmeat.net/users/skirrow/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:04

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: OpenCrypt is a fully automated and self-managing membership and
user management system for use on Internet Web sites. It offers support for
unlimited membership subscription groups, linked to unlimited secure
content areas, and integration with all major e-commerce payment
processors. An affiliate system, integrated help-desk, digital file
delivery, content management, newsletter and community tools, and in-built
shopping cart systems make it an incredible marketing and Web site
management tool too. A database integration facility allows you to link
registration with any text database or MySQL-based software such as your
forum or helpdesk.

Changes: A secondary/backup database fall-over system was added. Barclays
ePDQ payment integration was added. PayPal PayFlow Link payment integration
was added. Custom shipping and TAX calculations based on user inputs were
added. A custom functions system was added to complement the "Database
Integration" facility. A product associations system was added, enabling
custom actions when a shopping cart item is purchased. Subscription
upgrades and coupon codes can now be purchased using "Add to Cart" buttons.
Multi-domain support was improved.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opencrypt/

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[013] - OpenLayers 2.7 RC1
by Erik Uzureau (http://freshmeat.net/users/euzuro/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 20:29

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical

About: OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in
most modern Web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. It can display
map tiles and markers loaded from any source. It implements a
(still-developing) JavaScript API for building rich Web-based geographic
applications.

Changes: Vector-Behavior was implemented, including strategies, protocols,
and filters. Vector rendering was improved for better performance. A Canvas
rendering class was added. Z-Ordering and Y-Ordering was added for Vector
layers. Basic Measurement Control was added. An OpenLayers.Request
interface was added for AJAX. Popups were made smarter.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openlayers/

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[014] - ora2pg 4.8
by Gilles DAROLD (http://freshmeat.net/users/darold/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 21:11

Database

About: Ora2Pg is a Perl module to export an Oracle database schema to a
PostgreSQL compatible schema. It connects your Oracle database, extracts
its structure, and generates an SQL script that you can load into your
PostgreSQL database. It dumps the database schema (tables, views,
sequences, indexes, grants) with primary, unique, and foreign keys into
PostgreSQL syntax without editing the SQL code generated. It also dump
Oracle data into PostgreSQL DB as online process or into a file. You can
choose what columns can be exported for each table.

Changes: This release adds a SYSUSERS configuration option to exclude more
Oracle System users from export. It also adds support for binary mode
output other than ":raw", which is useful if you have UTF-8 records. Double
escaping of special characters was fixed.

License: Perl License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ora2pg/

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[015] - Pyjamas-Desktop 0.1
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (http://freshmeat.net/users/lkcl/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:27

Desktop Environment
Multimedia
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Pyjamas-Desktop is a cross-platform framework and application
widget set, based on WebKit. It is similar to Python-Qt4 and Python-Gtk2,
except it is much easier to use and is more powerful. Pyjamas-Desktop
allows you to not only create your application with a simple widget set but
also to mix in CSS stylesheets, full HTML, load and run Web pages, load
plugins that conform to the NSAPI such as Adobe Flash, and execute
JavaScript. It is a port of Pyjamas to the desktop, so applications written
for Pyjamas can also be run unmodified under Pyjamas-Desktop.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyjd/

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[016] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.12
by alxtoth (http://freshmeat.net/users/alxtoth/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 23:33



About: Reverse Snowflake Joins is a tool that parses SQL Select statements
and generates a diagram. In addition to joins, the diagram shows parts of
the underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For example x=30, GROUP BY
(year), SUM(profit), HAVING MIN(age) > 18.

Changes: This version now runs on Unix. The GUI was modified to report
errors and to display a welcome note (only if it is installed correctly).

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/revj/

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[017] - rst2pdf 0.7
by Roberto Alsina (http://freshmeat.net/users/ralsina/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 20:40

Printing
Software Development :: Documentation
Text Processing :: General

About: rst2pdf is a tool to convert Restructured Text to PDF without using
any intermediate formats.

Changes: Type1 and True Type fonts are automatically embedded. A width
attribute was added in styles to create narrow paragraphs and tables.
Styles are supported for table headers and table cells. "Zebra" tables can
be created. Improvements were made in the handling of overflowing literal
blocks (code, for instance). Different modes were added to handle too-large
literal blocks: overflow, truncate, shrink, or error. Real sidebars and
"floating" elements are supported. Link style was fixed.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rst2pdf/

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[018] - SILC Client 1.1.5
by priikone (http://freshmeat.net/users/priikone/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:23

Communications
Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Conferencing

About: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which
provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to
send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This
includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All
messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages
can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1,
PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is
delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system
administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.

Changes: This version fixes INVITE notify handling, some rare command
execution crashes, and other minor bugs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/silc/

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[019] - Snd 10.0
by Bill Schottstaedt (http://freshmeat.net/users/schottstaedt/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:20

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors

About: Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs. It can
accommodate any number of sounds, each with any number of channels. It can
be customized and extended using Guile, Ruby, or Forth.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/snd/

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[020] - Sockso 1.0.7
by naph (http://freshmeat.net/users/naph/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:24

Communications :: File Sharing
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: Sockso is a personal music server for everyone. It's designed to be
as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some MP3s can get
their friends listening to their music across the Internet in minutes.

Changes: "Related artists" information was added to pages. Unicode support
was improved. A Windows indexing bug was fixed (hidden folders are now
ignored).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sockso/

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[021] - Sound-Rec-Ed 1.3
by kindman (http://freshmeat.net/users/kindman/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:21

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors

About: Sound-Rec-Ed provides simple GUIs to record and edit sound files,
similar to operating a tape-deck. Buttons start and stop recording or break
incoming audio into separate files. It can cut sections from audio files or
join files. It saves files in WAV, OGG, or MP3 format.

Changes: Options were added to SoundRec for delaying the start of
recording and for limiting the total duration of all recordings. Options
were also added to automatically run user specified filter-programs or
scripts on each recorded file, as well as to set file sequence numbers to
specified ranges.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/soundedrec/

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[022] - Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.24
by John McNamara (http://freshmeat.net/users/jmcnamara/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 21:38

Database
Office/Business :: Financial :: Spreadsheet
Office/Business :: Office Suites

About: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is a Perl module which can be used to
create native Excel binary files. Formatted text and numbers can be written
to multiple worksheets in a workbook. Formulas and functions are also
supported. It is 100% Perl and doesn't require any Windows libraries or a
copy of Excel. It will also work on the majority of Unix and Macintosh
platforms. Generated files are compatible with Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and
2003, and with OpenOffice and Gnumeric. An older version also supports
Excel 5/95.

Changes: This release includes a method for setting the Excel document
properties.

License: Artistic License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/writeexcel/

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[023] - The Contiki Operating System 2.2.1
by Adam Dunkels (http://freshmeat.net/users/adamdunkels/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:17

Communications
Desktop Environment
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: Contiki is an open source, highly portable, networked,
multi-tasking operating system for memory-constrained embedded systems. It
includes a multitasking kernel, a TCP/IP stack and a set of application
programs, and a low-power radio communication stack. It is written in C and
designed to be very small: it runs comfortably in a few kilobytes of RAM.

Changes: Significant bugfixes and performance improvements were made to
the data collection protocol. Data presentation in the Contiki collect
program was improved. Power consumption was reduced for the X-MAC radio
mechanism. Performance improvements and bugfixes were made to the Coffee
flash file system. A workaround was made for a problem with the CC2420
radio.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/contiki/

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[024] - Votorola 0.1.11
by Michael Allan (http://freshmeat.net/users/mcallan/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 20:32



About: Votorola is software for hosting open, continuous elections in the
public sphere. It implements a medium of assent that is independent of
government and party electoral systems. It enables users to join with their
neighbors in advancing leaders for the local community and candidates for
public office.

Changes: Divisional schemes were introduced, enabling the administrator to
define different methods of dividing a region into electoral districts,
such as municipal versus federal. Navigation was overhauled in the Web
interface. Short-cuts were added for navigating directly to specific
elections and voters. A help page was added for posting user instructions.
Configuration hooks were introduced to enable the customizing of page
content and styling.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/votorola/

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[025] - Weblog 1.0
by Henry (http://freshmeat.net/users/Henry8/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 20:41

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary

About: Weblog is a blog publisher. It takes structured text files as input
and outputs static HTML and RSS files. It aims to be simple and robust.

Changes: style.rst is now part of the distribution. The blog title now
links to the base URL. A bug with renderstring when None or an empty string
was passed was fixed. Jinja 2 is used instead of Jinja 1 if both versions
are present.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-weblog/

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[026] - xmonad 0.8
by Don Stewart (http://freshmeat.net/users/dons00/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 23:51

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged
automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen
use. Window manager features are accessible from the keyboard; a mouse is
optional. xmonad is extensible in Haskell, allowing for powerful
customisation. Custom layout algorithms, key bindings, and other extensions
may be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied
dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama
is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several physical
screens.

Changes: A general purpose replacement for "gaps" has been adopted.
Floating windows pop up on the current screen by default. Locale support
was added. Many extensions were added, including the ability to write your
own configuration parsers.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmonad/

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[027] - Zero Install Injector 0.36
by Thomas Leonard (http://freshmeat.net/users/tal197/)
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 22:16

Internet
System :: Archiving :: Packaging
System :: Software Distribution

About: The Zero Install Injector makes it possible for users to install
software easily and without the need for root privileges. It takes the URL
of a program's interface description and chooses suitable versions of the
program and all of its dependencies (also identified by URLs) according to
the user's policy settings (eg. "stable", "testing", "minimal network use",
etc). The chosen versions are downloaded and cached and the program is run,
using environment variables to let it find the components.

Changes: Downloading should now be less CPU-intensive. A distribution is
no longer assumed to be RPM-based just because /var/lib/rpm exists. When
considering Debian distribution packages, the architecture is now
considered: for example, a 64-bit Debian library cannot be used with a
32-bit main executable. Some progress has been made towards supporting
Windows.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/injector/



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