Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters. Popt was
heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but
it improves on them by allowing more powerful argument expansion.
Popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set
variables based on command line arguments. Popt allows command line
arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility
functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using
shell-like rules.

PortAudio is a portable audio I/O library designed for cross-platform
support of audio. It uses a callback mechanism to request audio
processing. Audio can be generated in various formats, including 32 bit
floating point, and will be converted to the native format internally.

Authors:
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Phil Burk
Ross Bencina

Raptor is the RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland that provides a set of
standalone RDF parsers, generating triples from RDF/XML or N-Triples.

Rasqal is a library providing full support for querying Resource
Description Framework (RDF) including parsing query syntaxes,
constructing the queries, executing them and returning result formats.
It currently handles the RDF Data Query Language (RDQL) and SPARQL
Query language.

The Readline library provides a set of functions that allow users to
edit command lines. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The
Readline library includes additional functions for maintaining a list
of previously-entered command lines for recalling or editing those
lines, and for performing csh-like history expansion on previous
commands.

This is a port of the library and development tools to Windows.

Redland is a library that provides a high-level interface for RDF
(Resource Description Framework) implemented in an object-based API. It
is modular and supports different RDF parsers, serializers, storage and
query languages. Redland is designed for developers to provide RDF
support in their applications as well as a core library for RDF
developers to start with.

RPM Package Manager a tool for managing software packages.

Authors:
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Erik Troan
Marc Ewing

This package contains:
- The freedesktop.org shared MIME database spec.
- The merged GNOME and KDE databases, in the new format.
- The update-mime-database command, used to install new MIME data.

SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. A large
subset of SQL92 is supported. A complete database is stored in a
single disk file. The API is designed for convenience and ease of use.
Applications that link against SQLite can enjoy the power and
flexibility of an SQL database without the administrative hassles of
supporting a separate database server.

T1lib is a library for generating character and string glyphs from
Adobe Type 1 fonts under UNIX. T1lib uses most of the code of the X
Window System rasterizer donated by IBM to the X Window System project.
Some disadvantages of the rasterizer included in the X Window System
have been eliminated.

Tango Icon Theme.

This is the GNU termcap library -- a library of C functions that
enable programs to send control strings to terminals in a way
independent of the terminal type. The GNU termcap library does not
place an arbitrary limit on the size of termcap entries, unlike most
other termcap libraries.

This package contains libraries for the MinGW cross-compiled version.

This package contains the library and support programs for the TIFF
image format (MinGW Win32 version).

Tk is a graphical user interface toolkit that takes developing desktop
applications to a higher level than conventional approaches. Tk is the
standard GUI not only for Tcl, but for many other dynamic languages,
and can produce rich, native applications that run unchanged across
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and more.

WavPack is an open-source lossless audio codec.

The win_iconv is an implementation of iconv for Windows by Yukihiro Nakadaira
that has a much smaller footprint than GNU libiconv.

WV is a program that can understand the Microsoft Word 8 binary file
format (Office97). It currently converts Word into HTML, which can then
be read with a web browser.

XPM (X PixMap) is a format for storing/retrieving X pixmaps to/from files.

Here is provided a library containing a set of four functions, similar to
the X bitmap functions as defined in the Xlib: XpmCreatePixmapFromData,
XpmCreateDataFromPixmap, XpmReadFileToPixmap and XpmWriteFileFromPixmap
for respectively including, storing, reading and writing this format, plus
four other: XpmCreateImageFromData, XpmCreateDataFromImage,
XpmReadFileToImage and XpmWriteFileFromImage for working with images
instead of pixmaps.

This new version provides a C includable format, defaults for different
types of display: monochrome/color/grayscale, hotspot coordinates and symbol
names for colors for overriding default colors when creating the pixmap. It
provides a mechanism for storing information while reading a file which is
re-used while writing. This way comments, default colors and symbol names
aren't lost. It also handles "transparent pixels" by returning a shape mask
in addition to the created pixmap.

The xz command is a very powerful program for compressing files.

* Average compression ratio of LZMA is about 30% better than that of
gzip, and 15% better than that of bzip2.

* Decompression speed is only little slower than that of gzip, being
two to five times faster than bzip2.

* In fast mode, compresses faster than bzip2 with a comparable
compression ratio.

* Achieving the best compression ratios takes four to even twelve
times longer than with bzip2. However. this doesn't affect
decompressing speed.

* Very similar command line interface to what gzip and bzip2 have.

zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered -- that is, not covered by any patents -- lossless
data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system.

Packages in this project are built from the stable Git branch and contain fixes and features that are planned for the next stable release.