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A challenge for Malayalee programmers !

There is a bug in GNOME bugzilla regarding a rendering bug in Malayalam ( http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441654 ). This is the last major rendering bug in GNOME related to Malayalam. If any programmers can fix it, that would be a great contribution to Malayalam computing. Please go through the bug and see if you can help. Behdad, the mantainer of Pango is looking for a good explanation of current patch. Otherwise a better patch is required based on his suggestion.

Buildout and setuptools

(A comment to blog post by Tres Seavor -- I can't figure out how to add comment there, so this post.) Buildout is build tool which can be used for any Python packages and not something only for Zope. Since it is created Jim Fulton, the Zope Pope, naturally there are many early adopters from Zope community. Buildout itself may not be enough for all purposes, but it can be extended using "recipes", the extension mechanism provided by Buildout. Buildout use setuptools, but it's not for replacing it. You can make use all features of setuptools while using Buildout. So, all the strengths of setuptools are available for Buildout also. A buildout.cfg of a Python need not to have duplicate information given in setup.py . For example, a typical configuration file for a package will be like this: [buildout] develop = . parts = As you can see above there is no additional detail, the only information given is the packages required to be developed. (Here . means pac