Here are several programs that I think are worth mentioning or taking a look at. These have been released or updated in the last day or so. I regularly try to point out notable freshmeat releases in individual posts, but there are a bunch today:
fn 0.0.1 was announced on freshmeat today. Here’s the project description:
fn (FetchNews) is a non-interactive command-line tool for downloading and aggregating xml-based newsfeeds from web sites. It is suitable for use in a cron job to gather newsfeeds and generate reports at regular intervals.
It looks like this bad boy is written in C for the following reason:
A program like this should really have been done in a scripting language like perl or python, but when I started writing it I was bored with both those languages and was looking for a challenge.
Good stuff. The author has made some output from his program available.
pycURL 7.10.3 (and the underlying cURL/libCURL 7.10.3) has been released. Looks like a bugfix/tweak release from here.
JCTerm, a Java SSH2 terminal emulator, 0.0.2 has been released:
New features include sftp support, function keys and arrow keys support, and improved rendering speed.
TkVNC, a VNC viewer written in pure Tcl/Tk (!!!), 0.9 is out.
Qt# 0.6 is out:
This version improves support for Portable.NET and Ximian Mono, corrects the ctor signature for QTabWidget, now explicitly names all anonymous enums, includes boxing constructor access modifiers, adds missing methods to QComboBox, corrects ctor syntax for the examples, adds byte[] to QByteArray conversion, adds a new qmake-based build system for qtc distributions, adds a new csant-based build system for Qt# distributions, and includes a QFractals sample, a port of a Java quantum fractal generator to C#.