Version 2 of SourceForge

Updated 2001-11-06 14:04:29

SourceForge http://www.sf.net/ - aka SF - is an ambitious attempt to provide open source projects with freely available source code , bug, and request management, mailing list support, software distribution, and more. The effort has over 20,000 projects at this time.

A number of communities have, in addition, what SF calls Foundries. These are higher level organizational units centered around some theme. The one that is probably of greatest interest to the Tcl community is the Tcl Foundry. From this point, one can find pointers to various SF based projects which have been identified as relating in some way to the Tcl community. However note that there are more Tcl related projects on sourceforge than appear on the foundry front page. A search for tcl will reveal quite a few projects, in case you are looking for applications or extensions that can be tied together via Tcl.


As of mid August, 2001 the massive collaborative project support site at SourceForge [L1 ]/[L2 ] has (at least) 250 projects in (or using) Tcl and Tcl/Tk. Some stay in the top downloads, or high-activity category. This page is started because so many projects have been moving to SF.

Browse these projects from their trove list at:

     http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=182

Free to OpenSource developers, and development collaborators, SourceForge provides:

  • Apache/PHP web support with CGIs
  • SSH based shell access
  • FreeBSD and multi-version Linux compile resources
  • Web and mailing list feedback/discussions
  • CVS repository with SSH-based update, public access and CVSweb
  • High speed FTP and HTTP download sites

But rather than advertising SourceForge here, go browse the projects, or start your own, and announce it below:

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  • [L35 ][L36 ] Yozilla browser
  • [L37 ][L38 ] LinuDent ''Dental Front Office Application'

etc.

There is also a small code snippets library there:

 http://sourceforge.net/snippet/browse.php?by=lang&lang=11