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| 8 | <sect1 id="other-tools" xreflabel="Other Programming Tools">
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| 11 | <sect1info>
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| 12 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 13 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 14 | </sect1info>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <title>Other Programming Tools</title>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <indexterm zone="other-tools">
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| 19 | <primary sortas="a-Other-Programming-Tools">Other Programming Tools</primary>
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| 20 | </indexterm>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2 role="introduction">
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| 23 | <title>Introduction</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>This section is provided to show you some additional programming
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| 26 | tools for which instructions have not yet been created in the book or for
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| 27 | those that are not appropriate for the book. Note that these packages may
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| 28 | not have been tested by the BLFS team, but their mention here is meant to
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| 29 | be a convenient source of additional information.</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 32 | <title>Boost</title>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para><application>Boost</application> provides free peer-reviewed
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| 35 | portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work
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| 36 | well with the C++ Standard Library. The libraries are intended to be
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| 37 | widely useful, and are in regular use by thousands of programmers across
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| 38 | a broad spectrum of applications, platforms and programming
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| 39 | environments.</para>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 42 | <listitem>
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| 43 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 44 | url="http://www.boost.org/"/></para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 48 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/"/></para>
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| 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | </itemizedlist>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | </sect3>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 55 | <title>DDD (GNU Data Display Debugger)</title>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <para><application>GNU DDD</application> is a graphical front-end for
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| 58 | command-line debuggers such as <application>GDB</application>,
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| 59 | <application>DBX</application>, <application>WDB</application>,
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| 60 | <application>Ladebug</application>, <application>JDB</application>,
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| 61 | <application>XDB</application>, the <application>Perl</application>
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| 62 | debugger, the <application>Bash</application> debugger, or the
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| 63 | <application>Python</application> debugger. Besides <quote>usual</quote>
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| 64 | front-end features such as viewing source texts,
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| 65 | <application>DDD</application> has an interactive graphical data display,
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| 66 | where data structures are displayed as graphs..</para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 69 | <listitem>
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| 70 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 71 | url="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/"/></para>
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| 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | <listitem>
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| 74 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 75 | url="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddd/"/></para>
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| 76 | </listitem>
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| 77 | </itemizedlist>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | </sect3>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 82 | <title>cachecc1</title>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <para><application>cachecc1</application> is a
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| 85 | <application>GCC</application> cache. It can be compared with the well
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| 86 | known <application>ccache</application> package. It has some unique
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| 87 | features including the use of an LD_PRELOADed shared object to catch
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| 88 | invocations to <command>cc1</command>, <command>cc1plus</command> and
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| 89 | <command>as</command>, it transparently supports all build methods, it
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| 90 | can cache <application>GCC</application> bootstraps and it can be
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| 91 | combined with <application>distcc</application> to transparently
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| 92 | distribute compilations.</para>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 95 | <listitem>
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| 96 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 97 | url="http://cachecc1.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
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| 98 | </listitem>
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| 99 | <listitem>
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| 100 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 101 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cachecc1"/></para>
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| 102 | </listitem>
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| 103 | </itemizedlist>
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| 104 |
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| 105 | </sect3>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 108 | <title>ccache</title>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <para><application>ccache</application> is a compiler cache. It acts as
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| 111 | a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the <option>-E</option>
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| 112 | compiler switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be satisfied
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| 113 | from cache. This often results in 5 to 10 times faster speeds in common
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| 114 | compilations.</para>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 117 | <listitem>
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| 118 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 119 | url="http://ccache.samba.org/"/></para>
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| 120 | </listitem>
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| 121 | <listitem>
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| 122 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 123 | url="http://ccache.samba.org/ftp/ccache/"/></para>
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| 124 | </listitem>
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| 125 | </itemizedlist>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | </sect3>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 130 | <title>distcc</title>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <para><application>distcc</application> is a program to distribute builds
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| 133 | of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a
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| 134 | network. <application>distcc</application> should always generate the
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| 135 | same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is
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| 136 | usually much faster than a local compile.
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| 137 | <application>distcc</application> does not require all machines to share
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| 138 | a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or
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| 139 | header files installed. They can even have different processors or
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| 140 | operating systems, if cross-compilers are installed.</para>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 143 | <listitem>
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| 144 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 145 | url="http://distcc.samba.org/"/></para>
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| 146 | </listitem>
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| 147 | <listitem>
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| 148 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 149 | url="http://distcc.samba.org/download.html"/></para>
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| 150 | </listitem>
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| 151 | </itemizedlist>
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| 152 |
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| 153 | </sect3>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 156 | <title>Euphoria</title>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <para><application>Euphoria</application> is a simple, flexible, and
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| 159 | easy-to-learn programming language. It lets you quickly and easily
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| 160 | develop programs for Windows, DOS, Linux and FreeBSD. Euphoria was first
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| 161 | released in 1993. Since then Rapid Deployment Software has been steadily
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| 162 | improving it with the help of a growing number of enthusiastic users.
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| 163 | Although <application>Euphoria</application> provides subscript checking,
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| 164 | uninitialized variable checking and numerous other run-time checks, it is
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| 165 | extremely fast. People have used it to develop high-speed DOS games,
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| 166 | Windows GUI programs, and Linux X Windows programs. It is also very
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| 167 | useful for CGI (Web-based) programming.</para>
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| 168 |
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| 169 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 170 | <listitem>
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| 171 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 172 | url="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/"/></para>
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| 173 | </listitem>
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| 174 | <listitem>
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| 175 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 176 | url="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm"/></para>
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| 177 | </listitem>
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| 178 | </itemizedlist>
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| 179 |
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| 180 | </sect3>
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| 181 |
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| 182 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 183 | <title>FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West)</title>
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| 184 |
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| 185 | <para><application>FFTW</application> is a C subroutine library for
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| 186 | computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions,
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| 187 | of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as of
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| 188 | even/odd data, i.e., the discrete cosine/sine transforms or DCT/DST).</para>
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| 189 |
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| 190 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 191 | <listitem>
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| 192 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 193 | url="http://www.fftw.org/"/></para>
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| 194 | </listitem>
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| 195 | <listitem>
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| 196 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 197 | url="http://www.fftw.org/download.html"/></para>
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| 198 | </listitem>
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| 199 | </itemizedlist>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | </sect3>
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| 202 |
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| 203 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 204 | <title>GDB (GNU Debugger)</title>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <para><application>GDB</application> is the GNU Project debugger. It
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| 207 | allows you to see what is going on <quote>inside</quote> another program
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| 208 | while it executes. It also allows you to see what another program was
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| 209 | doing at the moment it crashed.</para>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 212 | <listitem>
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| 213 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 214 | url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"/></para>
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| 215 | </listitem>
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| 216 | <listitem>
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| 217 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 218 | url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/"/></para>
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| 219 | </listitem>
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| 220 | </itemizedlist>
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| 221 |
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| 222 | </sect3>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 225 | <title>GOB (GObject Builder)</title>
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| 226 |
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| 227 | <para><application>GOB</application> (<application>GOB2</application>
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| 228 | anyway) is a preprocessor for making GObjects with inline C code so that
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| 229 | generated files are not edited. Syntax is inspired by
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| 230 | <application>Java</application> and <application>Yacc</application> or
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| 231 | <application>Lex</application>. The implementation is intentionally kept
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| 232 | simple, and no C actual code parsing is done.</para>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 235 | <listitem>
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| 236 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 237 | url="http://www.5z.com/jirka/gob.html"/></para>
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| 238 | </listitem>
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| 239 | <listitem>
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| 240 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 241 | url="http://ftp.5z.com/pub/gob/"/></para>
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| 242 | </listitem>
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| 243 | </itemizedlist>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | </sect3>
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| 246 |
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| 247 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 248 | <title>gocache (GNU Object Cache)</title>
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| 249 |
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| 250 | <para><application>ccache</application> is clone of
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| 251 | <application>ccache</application>, with the goal of supporting other
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| 252 | compilers than <application>GCC</application> and adding additional
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| 253 | features. Embedded compilers will especially be in focus.</para>
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| 254 |
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| 255 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 256 | <listitem>
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| 257 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 258 | url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gocache/"/></para>
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| 259 | </listitem>
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| 260 | <listitem>
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| 261 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 262 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gocache/"/></para>
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| 263 | </listitem>
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| 264 | </itemizedlist>
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| 265 |
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| 266 | </sect3>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 269 | <title>GTK+/GNOME Language Bindings (wrappers)</title>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <para><application>GTK+</application>/<application>GNOME</application>
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| 272 | language bindings allow <application>GTK+</application> to be used from
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| 273 | other programming languages, in the style of those languages.</para>
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| 274 |
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| 275 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 276 | <listitem>
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| 277 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 278 | url="http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html"/></para>
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| 279 | </listitem>
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| 280 | </itemizedlist>
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| 281 |
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| 282 | <sect4 role="package">
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| 283 | <title>gtkmm</title>
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| 284 |
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| 285 | <para><application>gtkmm</application> is the official C++ interface
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| 286 | for the popular GUI library <application>GTK+</application>. Highlights
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| 287 | include typesafe callbacks, widgets extensible via inheritance and a
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| 288 | comprehensive set of widgets. You can create user interfaces either in
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| 289 | code or with the Glade designer, using
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| 290 | <application>libglademm</application>.</para>
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| 291 |
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| 292 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 293 | <listitem>
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| 294 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 295 | url="http://www.gtkmm.org/"/></para>
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| 296 | </listitem>
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| 297 | <listitem>
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| 298 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 299 | url="http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml"/></para>
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| 300 | </listitem>
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| 301 | </itemizedlist>
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| 302 |
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| 303 | </sect4>
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| 304 |
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| 305 | <sect4 role="package">
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| 306 | <title>Java-GNOME</title>
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| 307 |
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| 308 | <para><application>Java-GNOME</application> is a set of Java bindings
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| 309 | for the <application>GNOME</application> and
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| 310 | <application>GTK+</application> libraries that allow
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| 311 | <application>GNOME</application> and <application>GTK+</application>
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| 312 | applications to be written in Java. The
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| 313 | <application>Java-GNOME</application> API has been carefully designed
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| 314 | to be easy to use, maintaining a good OO paradigm, yet still wrapping
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| 315 | the entire functionality of the underlying libraries.
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| 316 | <application>Java-GNOME</application> can be used with the
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| 317 | <application>Eclipse</application> development environment and Glade
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| 318 | user interface designer to create applications with ease.</para>
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| 319 |
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| 320 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 321 | <listitem>
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| 322 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 323 | url="http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view"/></para>
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| 324 | </listitem>
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| 325 | <listitem>
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| 326 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 327 | url="http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view/Main/GetJavaGnome#Source_Code"/></para>
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| 328 | </listitem>
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| 329 | </itemizedlist>
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| 330 |
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| 331 | </sect4>
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| 332 |
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| 333 | <sect4 role="package">
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| 334 | <title>gtk2-perl</title>
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| 335 |
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| 336 | <para><application>gtk2-perl</application> is the collective name for
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| 337 | a set of perl bindings for <application>GTK+</application> 2.x and
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| 338 | various related libraries. These modules make it easy to write
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| 339 | <application>GTK</application> and <application>GNOME</application>
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| 340 | applications using a natural, perlish, object-oriented syntax.</para>
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| 341 |
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| 342 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 343 | <listitem>
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| 344 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 345 | url="http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
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| 346 | </listitem>
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| 347 | <listitem>
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| 348 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 349 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl"/></para>
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| 350 | </listitem>
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| 351 | </itemizedlist>
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| 352 |
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| 353 | </sect4>
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| 354 |
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| 355 | <sect4 role="package">
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| 356 | <title>PyGTK</title>
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| 357 |
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| 358 | <para><application>PyGTK</application> provides a convenient wrapper
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| 359 | for the <application>GTK</application> library for use in
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| 360 | <application>Python</application> programs, and takes care of many of
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| 361 | the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When
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| 362 | combined with <application>PyORBit</application> and
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| 363 | <application>gnome-python</application>, it can be used to write full
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| 364 | featured <application>GNOME</application> applications.</para>
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| 365 |
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| 366 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 367 | <listitem>
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| 368 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 369 | url="http://www.pygtk.org/"/></para>
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| 370 | </listitem>
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| 371 | <listitem>
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| 372 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 373 | url="http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html"/></para>
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| 374 | </listitem>
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| 375 | </itemizedlist>
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| 376 |
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| 377 | </sect4>
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| 378 |
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| 379 | </sect3>
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| 380 |
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| 381 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 382 | <title>KDE Language Bindings</title>
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| 383 |
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| 384 | <para><application>KDE</application> and most
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| 385 | <application>KDE</application> applications are implemented using the
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| 386 | C++ programming language, however there are number of bindings to other
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| 387 | languages are available. These include scripting languages like
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| 388 | <application>Perl</application>, <application>Python</application> and
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| 389 | <application>Ruby</application>, and systems programming languages such
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| 390 | as Java and C#.</para>
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| 391 |
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| 392 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 393 | <listitem>
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| 394 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 395 | url="http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/"/></para>
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| 396 | </listitem>
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| 397 | </itemizedlist>
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| 398 |
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| 399 | </sect3>
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| 400 |
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| 402 | <title>Numerical Python (Numpy)</title>
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| 403 |
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| 404 | <para><application>Numerical Python</application> adds a fast array
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| 405 | facility to the <application>Python</application> language.</para>
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| 406 |
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| 407 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 408 | <listitem>
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| 409 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 410 | url="http://numeric.scipy.org/"/></para>
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| 411 | </listitem>
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| 412 | <listitem>
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| 413 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 414 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/numpy/"/></para>
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| 415 | </listitem>
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| 416 | </itemizedlist>
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| 417 |
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| 418 | </sect3>
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| 419 |
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| 421 | <title>Perl Scripts and Additional Modules</title>
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| 422 |
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| 423 | <para>There are many <application>Perl</application> scripts and
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| 424 | additional modules located on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
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| 425 | (CPAN) web site. Here you will find <quote>All Things Perl</quote>.</para>
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| 426 |
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| 427 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 428 | <listitem>
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| 429 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 430 | url="http://cpan.org/"/></para>
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| 431 | </listitem>
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| 432 | </itemizedlist>
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| 433 |
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| 435 |
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| 437 | <title>SCons</title>
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| 438 |
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| 439 | <para><application>SCons</application> is an Open Source software
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| 440 | construction tool, i.e, a next-generation build tool. Think of
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| 441 | <application>SCons</application> as an improved, cross-platform
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| 442 | substitute for the classic <command>make</command> utility with
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| 443 | integrated functionality similar to
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| 444 | <application>Autoconf</application>/<application>Automake</application>
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| 445 | and compiler caches such as <command>ccache</command>.</para>
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| 446 |
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| 447 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 448 | <listitem>
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| 449 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 450 | url="http://scons.sourceforge.net/"/></para>
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| 451 | </listitem>
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| 452 | <listitem>
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| 453 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 454 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scons/"/></para>
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| 455 | </listitem>
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| 456 | </itemizedlist>
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| 457 |
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| 458 | </sect3>
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| 459 |
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| 460 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 461 | <title>strace</title>
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| 462 |
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| 463 | <para><application>strace</application> is a system call tracer, i.e., a
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| 464 | debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by
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| 465 | another process or program.</para>
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| 466 |
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| 467 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 468 | <listitem>
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| 469 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 470 | url="http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/strace/"/></para>
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| 471 | </listitem>
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| 472 | <listitem>
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| 473 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 474 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/strace/"/></para>
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| 475 | </listitem>
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| 476 | </itemizedlist>
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| 477 |
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| 478 | </sect3>
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| 479 |
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| 480 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 481 | <title>SWIG</title>
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| 482 |
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| 483 | <para><application>SWIG</application> is a software development tool
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| 484 | that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level
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| 485 | programming languages. <application>SWIG</application> is used with
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| 486 | different types of languages including common scripting languages such as
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| 487 | <application>Perl</application>, <application>Python</application>,
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| 488 | <application>Tcl</application>/<application>Tk</application> and
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| 489 | <application>Ruby</application>. The list of supported languages also
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| 490 | includes non-scripting languages such as <application>C#</application>,
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| 491 | <application>Common Lisp</application> (Allegro CL),
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| 492 | <application>Java</application>, <application>Modula-3</application>
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| 493 | and <application>OCAML</application>. Also several interpreted and
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| 494 | compiled Scheme implementations (<application>Chicken</application>,
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| 495 | <application>Guile</application>, <application>MzScheme</application>)
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| 496 | are supported. <application>SWIG</application> is most commonly used to
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| 497 | create high-level interpreted or compiled programming environments, user
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| 498 | interfaces, and as a tool for testing and prototyping C/C++ software.
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| 499 | <application>SWIG</application> can also export its parse tree in the
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| 500 | form of XML and Lisp s-expressions.</para>
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| 501 |
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| 502 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 503 | <listitem>
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| 504 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 505 | url="http://www.swig.org/"/></para>
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| 506 | </listitem>
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| 507 | <listitem>
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| 508 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 509 | url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/"/></para>
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| 510 | </listitem>
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| 511 | </itemizedlist>
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| 512 |
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| 513 | </sect3>
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| 514 |
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| 515 | <sect3 role="package">
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| 516 | <title>Valgrind</title>
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| 517 |
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| 518 | <para><application>Valgrind</application> is a collection of five tools:
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| 519 | two memory error detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and
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| 520 | a heap profiler used for debugging and profiling Linux programs. Features
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| 521 | include automatic detection of many memory management and threading bugs
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| 522 | as well as detailed profiling to speed up and reduce memory use of your
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| 523 | programs.</para>
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| 524 |
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| 525 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 526 | <listitem>
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| 527 | <para>Project Home Page: <ulink
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| 528 | url="http://valgrind.org/"/></para>
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| 529 | </listitem>
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| 530 | <listitem>
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| 531 | <para>Download Location: <ulink
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| 532 | url="http://valgrind.org/downloads/source_code.html"/></para>
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| 533 | </listitem>
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| 534 | </itemizedlist>
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| 535 |
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| 536 | </sect3>
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| 537 |
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| 538 | </sect2>
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| 539 |
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| 540 | </sect1>
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