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Ah. No. This generalization is wrong.
No, not necessarily. It is true for developer orientated apps, but not for apps where the users have nothing in common with the developers. The landscape is littered with unmaintained apps that filled a small niche. Sure, the kernel is never going be in that situation. But the smaller bits, well, yes, it does and can happen.

Remember, you are comparing the risk of being abandoned or shafted by a corporation to the risk of being abandoned or shafted by the orignial authors (possibly a corporation) plus its entire community of users, plus yourself.
In many cases it's not much difference. I will never maintain someone's software package. It's a fact. I don't have the skill. Check. The entire community of users may be 100 people in my situation. Sure, it could be 1,000,000 users. If Apache foundation shutdown, I am sure Apache would be fine. But what about, for example this project. What if you relied on that, depended on it, and all now, even though it's open source, it's inactive.

There are lots of such tools, including CVS, Subversion (SVN), GNU arch, Monotone, Aegis, CVSNT, Darcs, FastCST, OpenCM, Vesta, Superversion, Codeville, Bazaar, Arx, and Bazaar-NG.

Isn't it obvious Source Forge just like all the other OSS projects.

He can announce new releases on FreshMeat and close up the LKML.

Ant Tasks for AlienBrain was something we needed in-house, but realised would be generally useful. After a debate with my boss, we got clearance to release.

OK, it's not the GIMP or anything, but every little helps...

Have a look here:

http://castlecops.com/postt79253.html

Proxomitron the APP isn't being developed, but that's because the author died a couple of years ago. There are moves to remake it in open source:

http://proximodo.sourceforge.net/

However, none of that is the point.

Think of Proxomitron as an underlying technology which doesn't alter.

What alters is the filtersets, and those are bang up to date and constantly being refined.

So download Proxomitron, install a current filterset, and enjoy the web without all the crud from here on in.

I've got my QuickCam Pro USB (dark focus ring) to work with the nw802 module and gnomemeeting. Color's a bit off (yellowed) though.

It's great that he could bridge to his 9500 and connect, but I guess one could also just run the Symbian version of PuTTY as well. I use it and it works great on my 9500.

Well, I just recently received the blessing to release a bunch of internal PHP tools I made as open source... a test case management system, an inventory library system, and a scheduled task notification system.

It helps a lot when you can easily point out that the tools you want open sourced have nothing to do with the core function of the company, and are really serving a generic purpose and could be used by others. (It also helps to have designed the tools with this in mind from the start.)

My company asked that the company's name be included somewhere in the softwares' materials in the releases I was involved with; I figured this was a small favor to go along with, and it helped them appreciate the idea as having some sort of paid-forward benefit.

I'm approaching this from the other side, I'm a biologist not a coder.
What I'm working on right now is alignments of RNA secondary structures. Since this is a relatively new idea there is no really polished software to this yet.
Some of the stuff I experinced in the last days:
RSMatch:
http://http//aria.njit.edu/rnacenter/RSmatch/ Chokes on lower case letters in the sequnce files. Most amusingly it does that when it encounters one, meaning it will happily do seed alignments for 45 minutes then find a 'g' in the ninth out of ten seqs and die.. No problem if you know but it took me some time to figure that one out
Dart:
http://dart.sourceforge.net/
Eats memory like nothing else I have ever seen. I have a Dual G5 with 4 Gigs of RAM here and Dart really manages to fill the whole 4 Gigs with 4000 bytes of data (20 RNAs with 200 bases..)
Don't get me wrong, I really like what I do and I'm really glad there is people out there writing this kind of software and making it available but sometimes it is a bit frustrating ;-)

Check EPS: http://eps.sourceforge.net

I am project admin on EPS. EPS can handle many maps in different resolutions and sizes, do zooming and scrolling.

> I live in detroit and I agree.... why novi?
> They could have done Troy or even downtown...

Because although I'd had the idea of doing this for years, Tracy Worcester had experience (con chair of ConFusion in 2000) and had con staff she could call on in the area. She lived in Ypsilanti.

Our first year, we were in Warren.

Oddly enough, Tracy's thinking about being con chair again next year, which should seriously rock...

User 7471 here. Could you go into more detail?

Just kidding. I am still unemployed, and did not do my taxes yet, and I have a student loan that I need to pay off from a sponsor that might have been a Nazi supporter (Mr Ford). But for some reason, I think things are going to be OK.
http://www.godhatesamerica.com

Vote or Die. Jack!
http://freenet.sourceforge.net

I have a video with an 18 inch object. Anyone want to see it?

Why everyone is going digital:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265459/.

How is the E911 programming coming?

Now do you know why I bough my LVLT stock now?

Anyone seen this yet?
http://whitehat.co.il
http://www.whoppix.net

If you can not beat-um, join um.

Not to be confused with a bomb.
http://hackaday.com/entry/1234000073038748/

Happy flying.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/01/18/airbus.380/

I have copy of Bill Gates talking about the ROM if anyone wants it.
http://news.com.com/Battle+brews+over+unlocking+PC +secrets/2100-1016_3-5654272.html

Also on the CD are the first 3 episodes of /. Geeks in Space.

"THATS HOT!" Copy Right Paris Hilton.

Ahh... http://www.mlb.tv More Micro$oft.
Good old. Omniture again.
http://www.omniture.com

Sex, America's real past time activity.
Wake me in 2008!

http://farsight.sourceforge.net/ is the new and improved gaim-vv (all the gaim-vv devs are here), although we dont have a realease yet, but one is comming pretty soon.

1. Resize the image to various resolutions
2. Break the images into 200x200 pixel chunks at each resolution and save those chunks as individual image files
3. Put a javascript interface on

...does anyone know where I can contact the Open Source Ministry of Truth? Hmmm... I seem to be there.

The news has recently been announced -- just in time for the emergence of AI-ready robots -- that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

The solution to AI qua problem -- qua grand challenge to humanity -- exists at first in theory only.

The Association for Computing Machinery has reported in ACM Sigplan Notices 33(12):25-31 (1998) and in ACM Sigplan Notices 39(12):11-16 (2004) on progress in implementing the AI solution as open-source AI software evolving into Mind.Forth for robots. There is an implicit contest involved here of who can keep the date-stamped robot AI Mind running the longest, as if for the Guiness Book of World Records. Since Mentifex AI is in the public domain, programmers are free to customize special AI Minds in any programming language and to offer their artificial intelligence for sale on eBay in the Computers and Networking software marketplace.

Please do not point to the primitive Mentifex software as proof that the claim of an AI solution is false. The only claim made here is that AI has been solved in theory, not yet (please stand by) successfully implemented in software or hardware. The Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) is creating powerful Novamente software but is handicapped for lack of funding and for disregard of the Mentifex AI theory. Mentifex has a secret plan to locate funding for AGIRI if the AGI team either hires Mentifex or agrees to implement the Theory of Cognitivity.

The news has recently been announced -- just in time for the emergence of AI-ready robots -- that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

The solution to AI qua problem -- qua grand challenge to humanity -- exists at first in theory only.

The Association for Computing Machinery has reported in ACM Sigplan Notices 33(12):25-31 (1998) and in ACM Sigplan Notices 39(12):11-16 (2004) on progress in implementing the AI solution as open-source AI software evolving into Mind.Forth for robots. There is an implicit contest involved here of who can keep the date-stamped robot AI Mind running the longest, as if for the Guiness Book of World Records. Since Mentifex AI is in the public domain, programmers are free to customize special AI Minds in any programming language and to offer their artificial intelligence for sale on eBay in the Computers and Networking software marketplace.

Please do not point to the primitive Mentifex software as proof that the claim of an AI solution is false. The only claim made here is that AI has been solved in theory, not yet (please stand by) successfully implemented in software or hardware. The Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) is creating powerful Novamente software but is handicapped for lack of funding and for disregard of the Mentifex AI theory. Mentifex has a secret plan to locate funding for AGIRI if the AGI team either hires Mentifex or agrees to implement the Theory of Cognitivity.

The news has recently been announced -- just in time for the emergence of AI-ready robots -- that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

The solution to AI qua problem -- qua grand challenge to humanity -- exists at first in theory only.

The Association for Computing Machinery has reported in ACM Sigplan Notices 33(12):25-31 (1998) and in ACM Sigplan Notices 39(12):11-16 (2004) on progress in implementing the AI solution as open-source AI software evolving into Mind.Forth for robots. There is an implicit contest involved here of who can keep the date-stamped robot AI Mind running the longest, as if for the Guiness Book of World Records. Since Mentifex AI is in the public domain, programmers are free to customize special AI Minds in any programming language and to offer their artificial intelligence for sale on eBay in the Computers and Networking software marketplace.

Please do not point to the primitive Mentifex software as proof that the claim of an AI solution is false. The only claim made here is that AI has been solved in theory, not yet (please stand by) successfully implemented in software or hardware. The Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) is creating powerful Novamente software but is handicapped for lack of funding and for disregard of the Mentifex AI theory. Mentifex has a secret plan to locate funding for AGIRI if the AGI team either hires Mentifex or agrees to implement the Theory of Cognitivity.

The news has recently been announced -- just in time for the emergence of AI-ready robots -- that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

The solution to AI qua problem -- qua grand challenge to humanity -- exists at first in theory only.

The Association for Computing Machinery has reported in ACM Sigplan Notices 33(12):25-31 (1998) and in ACM Sigplan Notices 39(12):11-16 (2004) on progress in implementing the AI solution as open-source AI software evolving into Mind.Forth for robots. There is an implicit contest involved here of who can keep the date-stamped robot AI Mind running the longest, as if for the Guiness Book of World Records. Since Mentifex AI is in the public domain, programmers are free to customize special AI Minds in any programming language and to offer their artificial intelligence for sale on eBay in the Computers and Networking software marketplace.

Please do not point to the primitive Mentifex software as proof that the claim of an AI solution is false. The only claim made here is that AI has been solved in theory, not yet (please stand by) successfully implemented in software or hardware. The Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) is creating powerful Novamente software but is handicapped for lack of funding and for disregard of the Mentifex AI theory. Mentifex has a secret plan to locate funding for AGIRI if the AGI team either hires Mentifex or agrees to implement the Theory of Cognitivity.

The news has recently been announced -- just in time for the emergence of AI-ready robots -- that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

The solution to AI qua problem -- qua grand challenge to humanity -- exists at first in theory only.

The Association for Computing Machinery has reported in ACM Sigplan Notices 33(12):25-31 (1998) and in ACM Sigplan Notices 39(12):11-16 (2004) on progress in implementing the AI solution as open-source AI software evolving into Mind.Forth for robots. There is an implicit contest involved here of who can keep the date-stamped robot AI Mind running the longest, as if for the Guiness Book of World Records. Since Mentifex AI is in the public domain, programmers are free to customize special AI Minds in any programming language and to offer their artificial intelligence for sale on eBay in the Computers and Networking software marketplace.

Please do not point to the primitive Mentifex software as proof that the claim of an AI solution is false. The only claim made here is that AI has been solved in theory, not yet (please stand by) successfully implemented in software or hardware. The Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) is creating powerful Novamente software but is handicapped for lack of funding and for disregard of the Mentifex AI theory. Mentifex has a secret plan to locate funding for AGIRI if the AGI team either hires Mentifex or agrees to implement the Theory of Cognitivity.

The news has recently been announced -- just in time for the emergence of AI-ready robots -- that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

The solution to AI qua problem -- qua grand challenge to humanity -- exists at first in theory only.

The Association for Computing Machinery has reported in ACM Sigplan Notices 33(12):25-31 (1998) and in ACM Sigplan Notices 39(12):11-16 (2004) on progress in implementing the AI solution as open-source AI software evolving into Mind.Forth for robots. There is an implicit contest involved here of who can keep the date-stamped robot AI Mind running the longest, as if for the Guiness Book of World Records. Since Mentifex AI is in the public domain, programmers are free to customize special AI Minds in any programming language and to offer their artificial intelligence for sale on eBay in the Computers and Networking software marketplace.

Please do not point to the primitive Mentifex software as proof that the claim of an AI solution is false. The only claim made here is that AI has been solved in theory, not yet (please stand by) successfully implemented in software or hardware. The Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) is creating powerful Novamente software but is handicapped for lack of funding and for disregard of the Mentifex AI theory. Mentifex has a secret plan to locate funding for AGIRI if the AGI team either hires Mentifex or agrees to implement the Theory of Cognitivity.

The news has recently been announced -- just in time for the emergence of AI-ready robots -- that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

The solution to AI qua problem -- qua grand challenge to humanity -- exists at first in theory only.

The Association for Computing Machinery has reported in ACM Sigplan Notices 33(12):25-31 (1998) and in ACM Sigplan Notices 39(12):11-16 (2004) on progress in implementing the AI solution as open-source AI software evolving into Mind.Forth for robots. There is an implicit contest involved here of who can keep the date-stamped robot AI Mind running the longest, as if for the Guiness Book of World Records. Since Mentifex AI is in the public domain, programmers are free to customize special AI Minds in any programming language and to offer their artificial intelligence for sale on eBay in the Computers and Networking software marketplace.

Please do not point to the primitive Mentifex software as proof that the claim of an AI solution is false. The only claim made here is that AI has been solved in theory, not yet (please stand by) successfully implemented in software or hardware. The Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) is creating powerful Novamente software but is handicapped for lack of funding and for disregard of the Mentifex AI theory. Mentifex has a secret plan to locate funding for AGIRI if the AGI team either hires Mentifex or agrees to implement the Theory of Cognitivity.

The news has recently been announced -- just in time for the emergence of AI-ready robots -- that the sideways integration of sensory input with a conceptual mindgrid is the solution to artificial intelligence.

The solution to AI qua problem -- qua grand challenge to humanity -- exists at first in theory only.

The Association for Computing Machinery has reported in ACM Sigplan Notices 33(12):25-31 (1998) and in ACM Sigplan Notices 39(12):11-16 (2004) on progress in implementing the AI solution as open-source AI software evolving into Mind.Forth for robots. There is an implicit contest involved here of who can keep the date-stamped robot AI Mind running the longest, as if for the Guiness Book of World Records. Since Mentifex AI is in the public domain, programmers are free to customize special AI Minds in any programming language and to offer their artificial intelligence for sale on eBay in the Computers and Networking software marketplace.

Please do not point to the primitive Mentifex software as proof that the claim of an AI solution is false. The only claim made here is that AI has been solved in theory, not yet (please stand by) successfully implemented in software or hardware. The Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) is creating powerful Novamente software but is handicapped for lack of funding and for disregard of the Mentifex AI theory. Mentifex has a secret plan to locate funding for AGIRI if the AGI team either hires Mentifex or agrees to implement the Theory of Cognitivity.

The only real problem Java has is that there is no good Free JVM. But I expect that will change in the future.

I too expect it will change, but the JVM and class libraries are very tightly coupled, meaning one can't really be complete without the other. Thus, I strongly encourage anyone who can to support Free (as in Freedom) Java efforts like GCJ, Kaffe, Jikes, and probably most importantly GNU Classpath.

There was a post on slashdot a while ago talking about why they forked it. This webpage is the webpage of Gaim-vv, and talks about how it is a "friendly fork whish will be backported".

Basically they forked to experiment, and will backport once it is tweaked to working.

This site has links to sites with linux drivers for several Logitech webcams... It's thanks to this site that I got my "QuickCam Messenger" working in linux... IMO it's running better in linux... But no big surprise, there, eh...

I am an australian who has been using bittorrent for many months now *over 1 year I think* and I use azureus + the RSS feed pluging to auto scan btefnet.org and grab all the latest episodes of the Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, Medical Investigations, Battlestar Galactica and others. No adverts and easily faster than the commercial channels, For example, I STARTED downloading the FULL battlestar galactica first season PLUS the two 'mini series' shows AFTER if had completed airing in the US, and I still had all 5.0Gb downloaded before the free to air channels started the mini series.

http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ project on sourceforge.

The CLE266 MPEG acceleration is working. The new chipset used by this board is under way.

Why would you want to encode in a PVR? I just write MPEG2 DVB-S streams to disk with VDR and watch them with xine. If I want to record to DVD I used vdrsync and write the file to DVD format.

CPU usage for DVD and DVB acceleration on 1 Ghz Epia is 10-15%

Try spyce

Military infosys, ASAS, and intelligence collection systems are often well documented on the internet. There is so much you can find online about how these systems work. What you see are many applications. I tend to react poorly when people when characterize Cyc as being misguided - the challenge to that argument would be to point out the utility of a system like Cyc. It would be incredibly difficult to recreate such a system due to the sheer enormity of the undertaking given current knowledge formation rates. The military is already formalizing their COAs with tools like Shaken from SRI. Cyc is a major server for these applications. I wrote a rather large Emacs major mode for Cyc which is incredibly useful to me at least, because I am able to introspect on knowledge and using the existing Cyc APIs to interact with my other systems. Cyc is a tremendous resource, but it's not strong AI of course. I find that as I read the military manuals from sites like globalsecurity.org and www.fas.org that I can see the indispensible relation between A.I. and military systems. For instance, in terms of things like knowing troop positions, or automated surveillance systems like VSAM. And there definitely is a tremendous amount of OPSEC protecting the classified systems. But what protects all this stuff best is the sheer complexity - it can't be reasoned about using a simple set of axioms. If I had anything to say about this is just that I wish people would be more interested in using existing AI applications. Here is an interesting project to that end: http://shops.sourceforge.net/frdcsa/external/index .html

Request a 'filter story by submitter' feature here.

How about Java Ruby? ;)

http://jruby.sourceforge.net/

I was the orginal author. It's now a GPL project on sourceforge. Check out the javascript client demo (done by Ruven Pillay), very cool.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he meant gparted.

He propably meant Gparted altough in Ubuntu 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" Partman is used.

The project evolved into the open source IIPImage system http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/.

It's in use internally at the National Gallery in London and the Louvre Museum in Paris amongst others.

There's are some demos of some extremely large images including a nice 43200 x 21600 pixel monster here: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/IIPDemo.html

Let's see the if our servers can handle a slashdotting ;-)

The project evolved into the open source IIPImage system http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/.

It's in use internally at the National Gallery in London and the Louvre Museum in Paris amongst others.

There's are some demos of some extremely large images including a nice 43200 x 21600 pixel monster here: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/IIPDemo.html

Let's see the if our servers can handle a slashdotting ;-)

Certainly ... 1. RHEL like OS is being deployed and tested for free ... on much more equipment than it would otherwise be. This leads to more potential RHEL customers. We also supply bug reports to the RHEL bugzilla so they see and can fix many more problems.

2. There are 4 or 5 open source projects that are based on a CentOS base:

http://contribs.org/modules/phpwiki/index.php/Upco ming%20Releases%20page

http://www.openfiler.org/sponsors/

http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/

http://www.rocksclusters.org/Rocks/

http://www.visualmediatech.com/

3. There are many customers who want an Enterprise Linux that they don;t have to pay for ... we are providing them a service.

4. That is how the GPL works :)

I have been doing this for over a year and a half on both my P800 and my A780. They both have Opera, and I just strip Project Gutenberg eTexts or other books down and break them into chapters. As long as the HTML formatting does not specify width, the page should display fine on any small screen. (The script I use is at SourceForge).

This can be done on any phone or PDA that has any kind of web browser. Even PocketIE can handle simple pages (although it cannot use CSS and it loads pages slowly). This is not a technological advancement. Practically every cell phone with a color screen and web access can do this.

It is nice to be able to carry a library of 10 or more books in one's pocket, as well. It is too bad copyright limits the books one can carry to approximately 100 years old or older.

I have been doing this for over a year and a half on both my P800 and my A780. They both have Opera, and I just strip Project Gutenberg eTexts or other books down and break them into chapters. As long as the HTML formatting does not specify width, the page should display fine on any small screen. (The script I use is at SourceForge).

This can be done on any phone or PDA that has any kind of web browser. Even PocketIE can handle simple pages (although it cannot use CSS and it loads pages slowly). This is not a technological advancement. Practically every cell phone with a color screen and web access can do this.

It is nice to be able to carry a library of 10 or more books in one's pocket, as well. It is too bad copyright limits the books one can carry to approximately 100 years old or older.

There are also other flavors available...
CentOS at http://www.centos.org/ and probably TaoLinux at http://www.taolinux.org/ will also follow suit with a new release.

One interesting software release that takes advantage of North-American Linux Enterprise distribution, is Asterisk@home, which comes with a recent CentOS 3.4 build. Spin your own VoIP infrastrucutre from http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/

If it's really a problem, there are a myriad of solutions -- Numeric and numarray for lots of numbers, psyco for JIT optimizations, Pyrex for a Python-like syntax that compiles to C (and can be as fast as C if you use it correctly), and lots of other new options as well -- IronPython is supposed to be faster than CPython (the standard implementation), there's quite a bit of work on type inference, PyPy is working hard at compiling Python to fast C, Boost can inline C++ code... there's a huge number of options.

I've never encountered someone who had to throw a project away because of performance issues in Python. Sometimes they have to change the design, move some small parts of C, make better use of other people's libraries, and always of course driven by profiling -- but that's the kind of refactoring that always happens in development. And for a very large number of applications it simply is never a problem.

You mean like this?

I'll second that - been using it on Mac OS X for a good few months now and I'm very happy with it. Sean and the dev team are very helpful - you can mail them via support, or bring something up in the mailing list, and you'll get a direct response: bit of a difference to Quicken's attitude! (They've completely withdrawn from the UK.) It's targeted at personal finance management and not really suitable for business accounts, though, for that I'd suggest GNUCash (via Fink if you're on OS X - compile from source, don't use the binary as it's old and somewhat buggy. Yes, the dependencies are huge unfortunately!)

There are some good finance apps for Linux as far as I'm aware, check out this (dated) review:
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0305l /ur0305l.html

MSMoney and Quicken are popular for a reason, though: they're actually fairly good, so don't be surprised if some of the features you're accustomed to don't behave the same or even aren't there at all. (For instance, MoneyDance doesn't do the equivalent of Quicken's Classes yet, though it will do very soon as it's near the top of the feature requests list.) Still, I think it's worth the short-term pain of switching to know that your software won't suddenly magically "expire", and that you're not locked into a platform because your accounts software only works on Windows. (Speaking of which, I'd *love* to see someone overcome GNUCash's evil dependencies and port it to Windows, it'd massively increase it's uptake & increase people's exposure to alternatives to the Big 2.)

GNUCashToQIF may come in handy for some (such as those testing out MoneyDance):
http://gnucashtoqif.sourceforge.net/

And there's a pretty comprehensive thread on Mac finance apps here:
http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2005/02/05/lo oking-for-mac-os-x-personal-finance-software/

As well as a decent comparative review of Mac apps here (with a good overview of MoneyDance, so as to not be too off-topic!):
http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/03/19/moneydance- get-your-groove-on/

Well, reading books off the cell phone became quite widespread in Russia, too. Especially, given the fact that there is a *tons* of russian books on the internet.

Have a look at http://bookshelf.sourceforge.net/ if you need a book reader for your cell phone.

It sounds like you found a good solution, but i thought I'd toss this in: librsvg + ctypes seems like a quick and easy way to do it. Ctypes is the equivalent of .net's P/Invoke for Python. If you have ever wanted to access a particular library from python but been put off by the amount of work necessary to write a module in c, try ctypes. Here's a librsvg example pulled off the web:

>>> from ctypes import *
>>> l=CDLL(".\\librsvg.dll")
>>> g=CDLL(".\\libgobject-2.0-0.dll")
>>> g.g_type_init()
14869872
>>> error=""
>>> pb=l.rsvg_pixbuf_from_file("folder.svg",error)
>>> d=CDLL(".\\libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll")
>>> d.gdk_pixbuf_save(pb,"out.png","png",error,None)

(from http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?threa d_id=6547497&forum_id=12476)

-Mark

A Python to Objective-C bridge, which allows for access to Apple's frameworks via Python (and, as for as I know, integration with XCode), has in fact been produced. See: http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/

Oops:

I meant OpenEV on sourceforge.net

See http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/

This gives you access to Cocoa from python. I believe you can use Xcode with it as well.

Check out the videos.

I'll forgo the karma, for the pleasure of Slashdotting SourceForge.