void-linux / void-linux/void-packages
Package request: libUCW
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- Dominant language
- Shell
- Stars
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- Forks
- 2.8k
- Avg merge
- 2d 5h
- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
Package name
libUCW
Package homepage
Description
The UCW library aims to provide a set general purpose tools for programming in the C language.
Features:
- Fast buffered IO
- Memory pools and other efficient memory allocators
- Generic data structures (e.g., heaps, search trees, growing buffers)
- Internal and external sorting routines
- Event loop (watching over file descriptors, sub-processes, timers, and signals)
- Configuration and logging system
- String routines
- Fast compression and checksums
- Transactions and exceptions
- Build system
- Documentation system
- Companion libraries for charset conversion, loading of images, and parsing of JSON and XML
- … and many more
Does the requested package meet the quality requirements?
System, Compiled, Required
Is the requested package released?
Yes
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No repository file or test is named. Start by reviewing the libUCW homepage and the void-packages packaging conventions, then determine the package metadata and build details required for this released C library. Done means libUCW is represented as a package meeting the stated System, Compiled, Required criteria.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100