GNU recutils - News
posted by jemarch, Sat 25 Feb 2012 11:08:18 AM UTC - 0 replies
I will be doing a talk introducing recutils at the CeBIT Global Conference in Hannover, Germany. The talk is scheduled the 7th of March at 10:00.
The talk is one of the activities ...
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posted by jemarch, Sat 18 Feb 2012 10:32:34 AM UTC - 0 replies
The FSCONS people recently uploaded the video recordings of the talks which were done in the last edition. Among these there is a ...
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posted by jemarch, Fri 13 Jan 2012 11:12:03 AM UTC - 0 replies
I am happy to announce a new release of the GNU recutils, version 1.5.
The changes in this release are:
- The utilities will now ask interactively for a password if it was not provided with the -s command line option. This avoids security problems related to shell history files. ...
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posted by jemarch, Thu 03 Nov 2011 05:50:24 PM UTC - 0 replies
I am happy to announce a new release of the GNU recutils, version 1.4.
The user visible changes in this release are:
- Support for encryption with the new %confidential special field.
- Support for named types with the new %typedef special field. ...
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posted by jemarch, Tue 10 May 2011 10:05:32 AM UTC - 0 replies
Some people contributed recutils binary packages for some GNU/Linux distributions. Sometimes it is easy for the user to get one of those packages installed than to build the program from sources. There is a list of the existing packages, to my knowledge.
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posted by jemarch, Fri 11 Feb 2011 07:55:58 PM UTC - 0 replies
I am happy to announce a new release of the GNU recutils, version 1.3.
The user visible changes in this release are:
- A quite bad (and embarrassing) bug introduced in 1.2 has been fixed. The bug was causing recins, recdel and recset to report random integrity failures, due to a uninitialized variable.
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posted by jemarch, Fri 04 Feb 2011 10:58:48 AM UTC - 0 replies
I am happy to announce a new release of the GNU recutils, version 1.2.
The user visible changes in this release are:
- New utility rec2csv, to export rec data to csv files.
- Support for auto-incremented fields and timestamps with the new %auto field in record descriptors.
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posted by jemarch, Thu 23 Dec 2010 11:41:10 PM UTC - 0 replies
I am happy to announce a new release of the GNU recutils, version 1.1.
The user visible changes in this release are:
- New utility recfmt, to format records based on templates.
- Improvements in selection expressions:
+ Support ranges in field subscripts.
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posted by jemarch, Fri 03 Dec 2010 05:45:31 PM UTC - 0 replies
I am happy to announce the first release of the GNU recutils, version 1.0.
The release can be found in the GNU ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recutils/recutils-1.0.tar.gz
Alternatively, http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/recutils/ will automatically redirect to a nearby mirror.
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posted by jemarch, Fri 30 Jul 2010 02:56:48 PM UTC - 0 replies
I am happy to introduce a new GNU package: GNU Recutils.
GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access simple human-editable, text-based databases called recfiles. recfiles contain data structured as a sequence of records, and support data integrity as well as the ability of record fields to refer to other records.
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