SF deploys SA, lauds P & BC

[Terry Reedy]

In Friday's occasional newsletter to registerees, SourceForge
announced that it has deployed SpamAssassin (written in Python) and
ClamAV to have curb the inundation. It also announced Boa Constructor
as the SF.NET Project of the Month. The citation:

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language. Python is arguably the most exciting and innovative
programming language available for use today. Serious programmers,
using
any language, need powerful tools designed to support development in
order to be successful. Boa Constructor, SF.net's August 2003 project
of
the month, is Python's serious tool. Boa Constructor is an Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) that makes writing extensive Python code
a
snap. It provides an interactive debugger, text editor with
highlighting, object inspector, integrated help and the ability to
graphically view classes. Boa Constructor is written in Python and
currently supports Linux and Windows. The project was founded on
SF.NET
in January 2001 and currently enjoys the top 10% activity ranking on
the site.

Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-08.php
Summary Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/boa-constructor/
Home Page: http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/

Terry J. Reedy

 

[Paul Rubin]

In Friday's occasional newsletter to registerees, SourceForge
announced that it has deployed SpamAssassin (written in Python)

Huh? There are some nice Python spam filters, but SpamAssassin is
written in Perl.

 

[Terry Reedy]

Huh? There are some nice Python spam filters, but SpamAssassin is
written in Perl.

Whoops, sorry, was thinking of SpamBayes.

 

[mackstann]

Also worthy of noting are the improvements to CVS. Anyone that uses SF
CVS knows that public CVS has been basically daily (or so) updated
snapshots of the real CVS, which has been a pain for fast moving
projects, and users who want to use/test bleeding-edge code. This
should all be resolved this week, it seems.

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I wanted to give you a few updates on SF.NET. First, in the last
sitewide email I described our CVS performance issues and the solution
we are introducing to fix them. The performance increase I spoke of
(600%+ increase) is just days away from being deployed. The new
systems are now in place, additional electrical power has been added to
our colocation cage, and the Linux boxes are in their final stages of
configuration. Hang in there. Help is on the way.
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