Re: Lots of pdf files

[Bruce Stephens]

Paul Rubin  writes:

> Greg Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one.
>
> There's probably some way to do it with pstops or some related program
> or set of programs.

The pdftk manpage gives this as one of its examples:

 pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf


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Re: ASN.1 encoder & decoder

[Bruce Stephens]

Doug Stell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Can anyone provide guidance on building an ASN.1 decoder and encoder
> in Python?

?
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Re: ASN.1 encoder & decoder

[Bruce Stephens]

Doug Stell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I looked at pyasn1. Unfortunately, it is not useful and provides a C
> interface. Thanks, anyhow.

What makes you say that?  It appears to me (looking at the code in
CVS) to be written entirely in Python, and the home page,
 shows examples clearly with a Python
interface.

I've no idea whether or not it's useful in any other sense.

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Re: BitKeeper for Python?

[Bruce Stephens]

Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

> You could try Mercurial
>
>   http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/

Or Codeville, also written in Python.

> which aims at being a true bk replacement.  Its also written in
> python.  Its being developed at the moment...

Codeville's said to be pretty usable.
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Re: BitKeeper for Python?

[Bruce Stephens]

Ville Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

> Bruce> Or Codeville, also written in Python.
>
> Or bazaar-ng, also written in python.
>
> Bruce> Codeville's said to be pretty usable.
>
> Ditto, through the repo format has not been stabilized yet.

The impression I get is that bazaar-ng probably isn't ready for real
use yet:

Warning: bzr is at an early stage of development, and the design
is still changing from week to week. The documents here may be
inconsistent with themselves or with the code, and sometimes refer
to features that are planned but not yet written.

I think I'd give it a while.
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Re: BitKeeper for Python?

[Bruce Stephens]

"John P. Speno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

> Too many choices here. Is anyone planning a PySCMOff blog yet ?
>
> Python, the language that makes reinventing the wheel a little too
> easy sometimes.

Why stick to Python?  There seem to be about a dozen newish SCM's
around at the moment, in at least C, C++, Haskell, Java, Python, Ruby,
Smalltalk (Squeak) (although I think that last one is only for the
Squeak environment).  Typical, you wait years for a decent replacement
for CVS, and then...
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Re: GUI builders considered harmful

[Bruce Stephens]

Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

> The first, and most obvious, thing that GUI builders do is force the
> developer to specify an exact position - if not size - for the
> graphical elements of the UI.

They do?  I don't remember them doing that.  I just downloaded SpecTcl
(a oldish example) just to check, and that doesn't.  I presume more
recent ones work no less well?

I seem to remember that the GUI builder in Visual Studio didn't seem
to be particularly sane (I couldn't seem to work out how to get a
dialog to resize appropriately to accommodate different font sizes,
for example), but I assumed that was just me failing to understand
something.

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Re: python doc available in emacs info format?

[Bruce Stephens]

"Colin S. Miller"  writes:

[...]

> Ubuntu maintains a package search site, it is on
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/
>
> However, there seems to be no files named
> python.*info   (regexp)

And yet there are info files in python2.5-doc:
.

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