The Xfce development tools are a collection of tools and macros for
Xfce developers and people that want to build Xfce from Git.
XParam is a general-purpose tool for parameter handling in C++.
It allows object serialization and deserialization in a format that is
human-readable and -writeable, and is unaffected by issues of word-size
and endianity. The XParam format is also not confused by objects containing
pointers: it saves the objects in such a manner that their conceptual
contents can be restored perfectly.
For this reason, XParam provides an excellent tool for cross-program and
cross-platform communication. In future, XParam may also be extended to
allow cross-language communication, but for now it is only available in C++.
ZooKeeper is a distributed, open-source coordination service for
distributed applications. It exposes a simple set of primitives that
distributed applications can build upon to implement higher level
services for synchronization, configuration maintenance, and groups
and naming. It is designed to be easy to program to, and uses a data
model styled after the familiar directory tree structure of file
systems. It runs in Java and has bindings for both Java and C.
Coordination services are notoriously hard to get right. They are
especially prone to errors such as race conditions and deadlock. The
motivation behind ZooKeeper is to relieve distributed applications the
responsibility of implementing coordination services from scratch.
Paraphrasing the website:
The ZThread package is an advanced object-oriented, cross-platform, C++
threading and synchronization library. It provides a high level
abstraction of the native threading mechanisms to offer a great deal of
flexibility and control.
ZThread features interruptible Thread and Runnable objects for C++, control
objects and implementations of concurrency design patterns. This includes
semaphores, mutexes, condition variables as well as other more complex
components.
ZThread implementations are provided for POSIX and Win32 platforms.
The zzip library provides read access to zipped file in a zip-archive.
It is based solely on free algorithms provided by zlib and can
transparently access files being either real files or zipped files
with the same file path argument.
Ren'Py is a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and
sounds to tell stories with the computer. These can be both visual
novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language
allows you to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python
scripting is enough for complex simulation games.
This port provides Ruby bindings for KDE.
This port provides Ruby bindings for Qt and KDE.
This port provides Ruby bindings for Qt.
This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on UNIX,
Win32, MacOS X and other platforms using the various native high-performance
media interfaces (for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code
level API to your application. This is a fairly low level API, but using this,
completely portable applications can be written with a great deal of
flexibility.