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task #9829: Submission of DFILE Tools

Submitter:  Keith Crane <kcrane>
Submitted:  Mon 26 Oct 2009 04:01:08 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Mon 26 Oct 2009 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Thu 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Mon 02 Nov 2009 03:14:21 PM UTC, comment #7: 

Yes, that does the trick.
Enjoy maintaining your project on Savannah.



I've approved your project--welcome on board! :-)

You'll receive a mail notification with further instructions shortly.

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Happy hacking!

Sebastian Gerhardt <sgerhardt>
Mon 02 Nov 2009 08:01:33 AM UTC, comment #6: 

I attached another source code tarball to this task that contains copyright and license information in make and build scripts.

(file #18976)

Keith Crane <kcrane>
Sun 01 Nov 2009 09:05:21 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Attaching updated tarballs is fine.
I reviewed the project and ask you to please add copyright&license infos to all handcrafted make&build scripts. Every non-trivial non-autogenerated file should have these.

If you deem the GPL text to big for those, you could also take a simple all-permissive license or even push them into public domain. But there needs to be some statement about this.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html#License-Notices-for-Other-Files

Sebastian Gerhardt <sgerhardt>
Sun 01 Nov 2009 12:43:31 AM UTC, comment #4: 

I was unsure how to update the tarball URL. I submitted the actual source code tarball as an attached file to this task. It is a tar file compressed with gzip. GNU tar can extract files from it using 'tar xzf dfiletools_20091031.tgz'.

(file #18965)

Keith Crane <kcrane>
Thu 29 Oct 2009 08:21:23 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Hello,

the website is a nice introduction to users who want to learn about your project.

But for the Savannah review process we must check the whole project. This is because the review consists of a check whether all files are licensed correctly, bear a copyright line, etc.

That's why we ask for a project tarball.

Sebastian Gerhardt <sgerhardt>
Wed 28 Oct 2009 09:00:52 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi Sebastian,

Instead of submitting a tarball of C source code I submitted an HTML document (dfile_tools.htm) that thoroughly describes the project. I thought Savannah's project admin group would prefer to read documentation rather than browsing thousands of lines of C code. The HTML file only contains documentation and does not contain links to web sites.

Keith Crane <kcrane>
Wed 28 Oct 2009 04:38:09 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,

I'm confused. Is there a project tarball with code somewhere to download or is all program code embedded in the website?

Sebastian Gerhardt <sgerhardt>
Mon 26 Oct 2009 04:01:08 AM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or discards the registration.


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While this item will be useful to track the registration process, approving or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group Administration page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively logged as site administrators (superuser):



Registration Details


  • Name: DFILE Tools
  • System Name:  dfiletools
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License v3 or later





Description:

Most UNIX distributions contain utilities such as sort and join that are capable of performing typical processing operations on data in sequential files. These utilities are well integrated into UNIX shell environments but lack some desirable features needed in large batch processing applications. Standard UNIX utilities do not allow data field values to be referenced by field name. They require developers to reference data field values by numbers that represent relative field position within records. This makes their use in applications much less maintainable. Most standard UNIX data utilities were initially developed when typical servers had single CPUs. Today, servers commonly have multiple CPUs. To take advantage of new multi-processing environments, features supporting scalable processing should be included in utilities. Finally, records using traditional character delimited fields are inherently inefficient to process. This record format requires every character of data to be examined to identify field delimiters. A more processing efficient record format is needed. DFILE Tools were created to address these issues in batch processing applications on UNIX servers.

This project is developed in C and has been ported to FreeBSD/GNU, Linux/GNU, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris.


Other Software Required:

zlib, www.zlib.net


Tarball URL:

http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/dfile_tools.htm


Keith Crane <kcrane>

 

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file #18976:  dfiletools_20091102.tgz added by kcrane (184KiB - application/octet-stream)
file #18965:  dfiletools_20091031.tgz added by kcrane (183KiB - application/octet-stream)

 

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    2009-11-02 kcrane Attached File- Added dfiletools_20091102.tgz, #18976
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    2009-11-01 kcrane Attached File- Added dfiletools_20091031.tgz, #18965

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