Project info for alien

Created 7 Mar 2000 at 00:50 UTC by joey.

Freshmeat page: http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/03/10/889576015.html

Notes:

Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it.

License: GPL

This project has the following developers:

• joey is a Lead Developer.
• clameter is a Contributor.
• proski is a Helper.

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!