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Bridging PHP to Java or C++?
by Mark Fredrickson 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi all, For my Machine Learning toolkit, I'm looking to draw on the work of either the Java Weka ML system or the MLC++ library. My question to the Drupal community is: which is easier to bridge (Java or C++) to PHP (and specifically to Drupal)? My vote is for Java, as I can distribute the (GPL'd) bytecode more easily than pre-compiled C++ binaries. Let's take performance off the table for this discussion. My design calls for the ML algorithms to be pluggable via an API to the interaction code, so high perf classifiers could be written later if my selected method proves slow. On a more general note, do any modules currently require php extensions that are not in PEAR? If so, how do they handle getting the module compiled and installed. Thanks, Mark Fredrickson

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cvs tags for core/betas
by Darrel O'Pry 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Is there any change of gettings cvs tags for beta releases? I'd like to be able to take a quick look at what all has changed between beta release and head via cvs... .darrel.

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Recent mail problems
by Dries Buytaert 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

FYI. Begin forwarded message: > From: Matt Rae <raema(a)osuosl.org> > Date: Thu 5 Jan 2006 01:29:28 GMT+01:00 > To: infrastructure(a)drupal.org > Subject: [infrastructure] mail queue > Reply-To: "A list for Drupal infrastructure maintainers (eg. > drupal.org, CVS, mailing lists)" <infrastructure(a)drupal.org> > > Just letting everybody know there was a email in the mail queue > that was > crashing the mailserver and clogging up the queue. If your list emails > were getting lost, that should be fixed now hopefully. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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the new standard RSS icon
by Theodore Serbinski 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Ok guys, with all of the improvements to the feed system in 4.7, I have one more suggestion to really wrap things up and help Drupal to be forward thinking in this area. There is a new push to standardize the RSS icon, and if you haven't heard, Microsoft, has adopted the *same* icon as Mozilla, that little orange icon. Yes, it's true, something *both* browsers will share in common. Wow, progress, at last! Read more about that here: http://mattbrett.com/archives/2005/12/the-new-standard-feed-icon/ So I motion that we do this for the final release of 4.7, that we include this new icon by default and get rid of the crummy XML icon. If you read that above article, it makes a lot of sense, does the term "XML" mean anything but to developers? We could certainly adopt either an orange or blue icon (could be theme specific, I'll leave that up to guys) but here is the link for icons: http://feedicons.com/ This is not so much a patch but a change in icons so I wanted to throw this out there. If everyone agrees, we can create an issue and get this committed. It should be trivial to implement, but as Drupal 4.7 sites are widely deployed next year, the affects of this icon will be much more impressive. And speaking of which, to go along with this, I think we should throw in a patch that puts this icon in a promiment place, instead of merely at the bottom of the page. Perhaps we can throw this at the top of feed pages (top of the node page for example). Still leave it themeable but change the default a bit. Just my 2 cents. Happy Holidays all! ted (aka m3avrck)

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by piotr＠mallorn.ii.uj.edu.pl 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

This is from bugtraq... -- Piotrek irc: #debian.pl Mors Drosophilis melanogastribus!

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fixed vs closed
by David K Norman 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

I think I do not understand the difference between fixed and closed when committing a patch to CVS. When I fix a bug for a module, I mark it fixed, but then fixed still shows up in the default view of all the open bugs. Does "fixed" not mean the problem is solved and to move on or should I be campaigning to remove fixed from default bug views?

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Drupal 4.7.0 release schedule
by Dries Buytaert 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello world, I think I might release a third beta release this week. - If someone wants to help with the release announcement (like merlinofchaos did last time), drop me an e-mail in private. - We fixed about 50 bugs the past 2 weeks. - There are more than 500 patches that need to be reviewed (status: patch needs review). - There are more than 1000 issues against HEAD/4.7 that need attention. - There are 200 critical bugs/patches that need attention. Please focus on the critical issues first: http://drupal.org/project/ issues?projects=3060&priorities=1&states=1,8,13,14 -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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new CVS accounts
by Dries Buytaert 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello world, we approved a number of new CVS accounts. Please welcome our new contributors, and assist them as necessary. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Caching of Aggregator vs. Local content
by Khalid B 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Here is something that those who use cache should aware of. http://drupal.org/node/42806#comment-79847 What his problem was is that cache (all the cache) was cleared every 15 minutes. The changes he did seem to be worthy of inclusion in aggregator and maybe core as well.

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[ot] dries must have seen chicken run recently =P
by Adrian Rossouw 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

http://flickr.com/photos/vertice/80900927/ i uploaded some more pics from drupalcon btw =P -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com

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