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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