1 - TurboGears/SA

SQLObject is dead, isn’t it? So With SQLalchemy, the syntax is:

sqlalchemy.dburi="postgres:///dbname?user=mydbuser&password=XXXXXX" ([1])
http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/DatabasePostgres

2 - Django/PostgreSQL

You just need to define DATABASE_ENGINE = ‘postgresql_psycopg2′ and DATABASE_NAME. Leave DATABASE_HOST setting empty to use UDS.

3 - Django/MySQL

Create a database in UTF8, either with default-character-set = utf8
under [mysqld] section in the my.cnf file or with an explicit ‘create
database bla charset=utf8;’

In settings.py:


DATABASE_HOST = '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'
DATABASE_OPTIONS = {
'read_default_file': '/etc/mysql/my.cnf',
'init_command': 'SET storage_engine=INNODB'
}

A - Note about PostgreSQL

When the user isn’t the same one who runs the process, you must edit the PostgreSQL configuration (/etc/postgresql/8.3/main/pg_hba.conf):
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   user     database      md5
local   all      all           ident sameuser

You must create an user with a encrypted password (encrypted by default).

$ CREATEUSER username
$ psql
postgres=# ALTER USER username WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'my_password';

If you want to be sure, remove the lines with ‘host’ to deny nonlocal connections.

To upgrade from previous version, run the following scripts:

1. sql/upgrade-sql-vtm-1.0.1-to-1.0.2.sql
2. sql/upgrade-sql-vtm-1.0.1-to-1.0.2.php

* MAJOR FIX to get the last user who has locked the module
* New $url_hosted_link and $url_hosted_name variables to set in
localconfig.inc.php
* FIX Sending of emails to the committers on ‘Ready to commit’
* New Brazilian Portuguese translation by Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
* New Czech translation by Lucas Lommer (#237486)
* FIX #237472 reported by Lucas Lommer
VARCHAR > 255 needs MySQL 5.0.3 or later

This new release contains major enhancements like the slave component.
A special thanks to Todd Denniston for this release.

The Ubuntu users can obtain the packages of this project here:
https://launchpad.net/~sra/+archive

libmodbus 2.0.0 (2008-05-18)
============================
- Slave API
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/slave-api
- No more glib dependency
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/glib-dependency
- Unit testing and many test programs
- Waf build support
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/waf-support
- MacOS X support by Matthew Butch
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/macosx-support
- No more glib dependency
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/libmodbus/+spec/glib-dependency
- Unit testing (unit-test-slave and unit-test-master)
- Port number is now defined at initialisation by Dirk Reusch
- Better memory management (uint8_t *data and packing of
modbus_param_t)
- Better error management
- Declare many static functions and const arrays
- Enhance an integer division
- The GNU licences LGPL and GPL are in version 3
- Debian and RPM packages (#224496)
- Many cleanups
- Fix #159443 reported by Stefan Bisanz
Index of incoming data in force multiple coils function
- Fix #161989 reported by Konstantinos Togias
Serial device paths more than 10 chars long (eg. /dev/ttyUSB0) don’t
fit to modbus_param_t -> device char[11] var.
- Fix #188189 reported by Chris Hellyar
Compute_response_size() no entry for read_input_status()
- Fix #191039 reported by Todd Denniston
modbus.h is not installed at prefix.
- Fix #211460 reported by Todd Denniston
With TCP, automatic reconnect on error may not be desired.
- Fix #224485 reported by Todd Denniston
libmodbus does not link with c++ code.
- Fix #224496 reported by Todd Denniston
It is easier to install on rpm based systems with a spec file.

https://launchpad.net/vertimus

===================================
Overview of changes in Vertimus 1.0
===================================
tab: vertimus-1-0 (2008-03-21)

* XHTML and CSS pass the W3C validator
* New tool to download all PO files of a release
* Show informations about other modules with the same name in the
module page (Javascript)
* Move old files in a backup directory
* Add some maintenance scripts
* Display the authorized extensions in module page
* Add a search tool
* Reduce require_once calls
* Add informations about APC installation
* FIX Backup of files
* FIX No error message when the extension file isn’t valid
* FIX Web site title translation
* FIX call to date_default_timezone_set
* Fix #189903 - RSS feed error

New and last release wrote in PHP! Take it while it’s hot! The next version will be in Python to integrate features from Damned-lies and Transifex.

time (./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && sudo make install)
=> 21.576s (with AM_DISABLE_STATIC)

time (./waf configure && ./waf build && sudo ./waf install)
=> 2.779s

The output is nice (compact and colorful), you can also use Waf in daemon mode (works with inotify) and each time a file of your project is modified, Waf build the new component. The size of the configure script is ~700Kb and if you choose to embed Waf it’s only 100Kb. Last but not least, your build system doesn’t check for Fortran anymore :).

Thanks to Ali Sabil for his demonstration of Waf at FOSDEM!

and with APC, the total time cost is only 123 904:

The CPU load is reduced by 36% but you need a bit of memory to store cache data (30 Mo by default). The results has been obtained with APC 3.0.16 and the following configuration:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; APC ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
extension=apc.so
apc.enabled=1
apc.shm_segments=1
apc.shm_size=30
apc.ttl=7200
apc.user_ttl=7200


I wrote some patches to reduce the CPU consumption and now, Cairo-Clock doesn’t appear in ‘top’ list, woooh! The solution was simple, it useless to refresh the clock at 30 Hz if the second hand is not drawn. I also use common code to manage timeout and g_timeadd_seconds reduce the number of interrupts when many applications use this function.

I prefer bzr to git but I published my patches on github so MacSlow can take my patches here: http://github.com/stephane/cairo-clock/tree/master

PS: I couldn’t resist to translate in French (and fix Cairo-Clock for translation).

This is the first release with support for localization, two languages are included in this release English (thanks to Phil Frary) and… French of course :).

Now, I think Vertimus is ready for world domination, so I urge you to translate Vertimus into your language and deploy it on a web server near to you (see the INSTALL file to follow the easy steps).


===================================
Overview of changes in Vertimus 0.4
===================================
tag: vertimus-0-4 (2008-01-15)
* based on the Zend Framework:
- Zend_Mail
- Zend_Translate
- Zend_Locale
- Zend_Db (PDO_MySQL)
- Zend_Auth
* new look & feel (CSS)
* separate specific settings in localconfig.php (URL, menu entries)
* translated in English and French
* mail encoded in UTF-8
* show a information message (editable by the administrator)
* use a sort order for the releases
* simpler session management
* the user can reset his password via an activation key
* licence is now GPL only
* cleanups
* FIX #158764 - Mail sent about status being changed to "Translated"
when cancel ing an action
* FIX #174698 - Angle brackets should be converted in comments


To checkout the latest version: bzr co lp:vertimus

The Launchpad branch is https://code.launchpad.net/gtk-frame-hig. libsexy is maybe the right container for that code.

PS: libmodbus 1.2.3 is out!