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Two convenience distributions.

bzip2 --
bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.

lzo --
LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed.

libart_lgpl is a libary for sophisticated vector rendering (PostScript-like model, antialiasing, alpha blending, etc.). It is part of Gnome project and basis of Gnome Canvas implementation (but note that itself it is a standalone library which renders to in-memory RGB(A) buffers).

Altbinutils-pe is a collection of several utilities useful for dealing with win32 executables. Give it a try - it's stuff I've been using for more than 2 years now. Read release notes for more information.

This library provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.

This is the GNU gettext package. It is interesting for authors or maintainers of other packages or programs which they want to see internationalized. As one step the handling of messages in different languages should be implemented. For this task GNU gettext provides the needed tools and library functions.

Internationalization on Win32 systems might push other porting projects forward. Anyway, since this package has already been ported it is nothing really brand new. But now you'll find it at some central point.

Continuing graphic libraries ports line, libmng - recently released reference library for MNG image/animation format (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmng/). GTK-based viewer included.

guile is standard GNU extension language library. It implements interpreter for language Scheme, of LISP family, one of the Languages of Choice, and is used throughout several GNU projects.

Another cool contrib from ela.

Another nice contribution by ela, Expat, the canonical XML parser library with utilities.

UFC crypt is a library for fast DES encoding/decoding, standard *nix crypt() one-way hashing and password input.

Contributed by Stefan Jahn.

Thanks to ela, we get 3 new packages:

GDBM, GNU Database Manager is GNU implementation of cannonical simple data storage
GNU regex is legacy (but standard) regular expression package
PCRE is new de-facto standard implementation of de-facto Perl-compatible regular expressions

Enjoy!

I would like to introduce new project developer, Stephan Jan aka ela, and his first contribution: port of GNU readline library, version 4.1. Thanks Stephan!

Due to some interest expressed to contribution, I release utility to create DSM packages (mingw/pw32 flavor) - before they were available only as the part of pw32 distribution. Note that this package depends on Python (tested with 1.5.2), GNU awk and InfoZIP.

Libtiff is the reference library for handling TIFF image files (de-facto for Desktop Publishing). It is compiled with support of deflate and jpeg compression, so depends on zlib and libjpeg.

Libpng is the reference library for handling PNG image format.

Libjpeg is a reference library for handling JPG files.

Zlib is zlib, i.e. canonocal data compression library.

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