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<a href="#features">Features</a>
- <a href="#addlib">Additional libraries</a>
<a href="#license">License</a>
<a href="#authors">Authors</a>
<a href="#download">Download</a>
- <a href="#docs">Documentation</a>
<a href="#bugs">Reporting bugs</a>
+ <a href="#addlib">Extra libraries</a>
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<h1>LibUCW</h1>
<div class="section" id="what"><h2>What's that?</h2>
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- <tt>LibUCW</tt> is a general-purpose C library providing both implementation of common algorithms (like sorting, heaps),
- support for performance computing (fast buffered IO) and some generic data structures.
- In short, it is a library of things the authors consider useful in most of programs written in C.
+ The UCW library aims to provide a set general purpose tools for programming
+ in the C language. In other words, to make writing of complex and very efficient
+ programs in plain C a pleasure.
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- As a bonus, there is a build system you can use in your program, documentation system and few perl modules.
- <p>
- It is developed as part of the <a href="/holmes/">Sherlock Holmes</a> search engine.
+ It originated as a part of the <a href="/holmes/">Sherlock Holmes</a> search engine,
+ but it is now developed separately.
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<div class="section" id="features"><h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fast buffered IO
<li>Memory pools
<li>Internal and external sorting routines
- <li>Generic data structures (heaps, search trees, growing buffers)
- <li>Unicode manipulation
- <li>Main loop (watching over file descriptors, sub-processes and timers)
- <li>Thread support
+ <li>Generic data structures (e.g., heaps, search trees, growing buffers)
+ <li>Very efficient memory allocators
+ <li>Event loop (watching over file descriptors, sub-processes, timers, and signals)
<li>Configuration system
<li>Modular system for <tt>configure</tt> scripts
<li>Build system
<li>Documentation system
- </ul>
- </div>
- <div class="section" id="addlib"><h2>Additional libraries</h2>
- <p>
- The package contains few other libraries which you might find useful.
- You can build & install libUCW with them or without.
- However they are not documented and are more specific.
- <ul>
- <li><strong>libcharset</strong> – allows manipulation with character sets.
- <li><strong>libsh</strong> – the <a href='/holmes'>Sherlock Holmes</a> library. It contains some routines for storing large amounts of data and alike.
- <li><strong>liblang</strong> – guessing of text language.
- <li><strong>libimages</strong> – manipulation with images.
+ <li>… and many more
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="license"><h2>License</h2>
<p>
- The library is available under the terms of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">GNU Lesser Public License</a> (LGPL) with the exception of few modules, which are in public domain.
- <p>
- There is also a commercial version of the library, available with the <a href="/holmes/#license">commercial version of Sherlock Holmes</a>.
- However, unlike the Sherlock Holmes, the commercial version of library does not come with additional features.
+ The library can be distributed and used under the terms of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">GNU Lesser Public License</a> (LGPL),
+ either version 2 or any later version. Several modules are in public domain.
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<div class="section" id="authors"><h2>Authors</h2>
<p>
- The library is developed together with Sherlock Holmes by the same authors. Most of it was written by <a href='http://mj.ucw.cz'>Martin Mare¹</a>, <a href="http://www.ucw.cz/~robert/index-en.html">Robert ©palek</a>, Pavel Charvát and <a href="http://vorner.ucw.cz/en/">Michal Vaner</a>.
+ Most parts of the library were written by
+ <a href='http://mj.ucw.cz'>Martin Mareš</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.ucw.cz/~robert/index-en.html">Robert Špalek</a>,
+ Pavel Charvát,
+ and <a href="http://vorner.ucw.cz/en/">Michal Vaner</a>.
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<div class="section" id="download"><h2>Download</h2>
<p>
- Currently, version 4.0 is available.
+ The latest release of LibUCW is version 5.0 (see <a href='doc/relnotes.html'>release notes</a> and <a href='doc/'>online documentation</a>).
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- You can download it via <a href="download/">HTTP</a> or via <a href="ftp://ftp.ucw.cz/pub/libucw/">FTP</a>.
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- <div class="section" id="docs"><h2>Documentation</h2>
+ It can be downloaded via <a href="download/">HTTP</a> or <a href="ftp://ftp.ucw.cz/pub/libucw/">FTP</a>.
<p>
- Although the documentation is not yet complete, you can <a href="documentation">browse</a> the part which is already written. You can compile the same documentation from the package.
+ The current development version can be checked out from our Git repository at <a href='git://git.ucw.cz/libucw.git'><code>git://git.ucw.cz/libucw.git</code></a>,
+ or you can examine the repository through <a href='http://www.ucw.cz/gitweb?p=libucw.git;a=summary'>gitweb</a>.
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<div class="section" id="bugs"><h2>Reporting bugs</h2>
<p>
- All reports about bugs, inconveniences or ideas for new features are welcome at <a href="mailto:holmes-bugs@ucw.cz">holmes-bugs@ucw.cz</a>. Patches implementing them are welcome even more ;-).
+ All bug reports, ideas for new features and other wishes are welcome at <a href="mailto:libucw-devel@ucw.cz">libucw-devel@ucw.cz</a>. Patches are welcome even more ;-)
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If you use the library to your pleasure, the authors will be glad to hear that at the same address.
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+ <div class="section" id="addlib"><h2>Extra libraries</h2>
+ <p>
+ The package also contains several other libraries from the Sherlock Holmes project, which you might find useful.
+ So far, they are completely optional and not much documented.
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>libcharset</strong> – manipulation of character sets and UniCode categories
+ <li><strong>libimages</strong> – manipulation of images
+ <li><strong>libshxml</strong> – a lightning fast and flexible XML parser
+ </ul>
+ </div>
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