Open-Source and related Stuff
This week, we finally managed to get a release of Meka out the door: 1.9.2. It now sports Weka 3.9.2 and now also works under Java 9 and later. After many, many years, I’ve released a new version of sizeofag,…
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So far, installating Weka through weka-virtualenv was only available on the command-line (see my previous post). Today, I rectified this by adding a more convenient way of installing Weka to the user interface. Furthermore, I also added support for configuring…
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Just added a new command called install to my weka-virtualenv tool. With this command, you can comfortably download and install Weka versions from Sourceforge.net. It uses the platform-independent zip files of Weka, listed in a manually maintained list in the…
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A lot of Java libraries are no longer pure Java, they quite often are wrappers around other native libraries, making them available to Java developers. This is all fine, until you run into the problem that libraries cannot be located…
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In order to be able to support more platforms in the future, I refactored my rsync4j library today, turning it from a monolithic library into separate modules: rsync4j-core – the core Java classes that wrap around the rsync binaries, all…
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A few weeks ago, I came across the mXparser library, which allows you not only to parse and evaluate mathematical expressions, but also to define your own functions. Today, I had a bit of time and I quickly put together…
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I’ve just made new releases available of my python-weka-wrapper and python-weka-wrapper3 libraries, that incorporate Weka 3.9.2 now. Underneath the hood, pww now uses Weka’s isolating class loading mechanism instead of just generating a classpath from the jars of the packages….
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Came across the following answer on askubuntu, explaining how to get Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.04: https://askubuntu.com/questions/865554/how-do-i-install-python-3-6-using-apt-get#865569 Which involves basically these steps: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3.6 However, for compiling packages through pip, you also…
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Linux always made it very easy to install background process (aka daemons), be it using sysv init or systemd. Windows on the other hand, always made it relatively hard installing services, IMHO. Enter NSSM, the Non-Sucking Service Manager. A little…
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Just reposting a link to Donald Stufft’s excellent post on setup.py vs requirements.txt, in order to have a reference for myself. 😉 https://caremad.io/posts/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/