pike8.0 8.0.1738-1.2 source package in Ubuntu

 This is a metapackage which depends upon several other Pike
 packages that together make up the recommended Pike installation.
 If you want to install every packaged component of the Pike
 distribution, please install the pike8.0-full package.
 .
 If you want to remove several components this package depends
 upon, you can purge this package without worrying about the
 functionality loss in Pike and then remove the packages you
 don't need on your system.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This Pike module enables one to use the Bzip2 compression
 algorithm from within the Pike programs.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 Pike is an interpreted, object-oriented, dynamic programming language
 with a syntax similar to C. It includes many powerful data types and
 a module system that, for instance, provides image manipulation
 together, with support for graphics formats like SVG, JPG, PNG, GIF,
 XCF and many others, database connectivity, advanced cryptography,
 XML/HTML parsers and others. To learn more about pike, please visit
 http://pike.lysator.liu.se/ Note that some of the Pike features are
 found in other pike8.0-* packages (image processing, MySQL,
 PostgreSQL, SANE and more).

 This package contains files you will need to develop C extension modules
 for Pike. The package depends on the recommended set of packages for the
 Pike environment.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This Pike module enables one to take advantage of DNS service discovery.
 .
 DNS Service Discovery is a way of using standard DNS programming interfaces,
 servers, and packet formats to browse the network for services.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package contains the traditional manual and auto-generated
 reference documentation.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package depends on all the components that make up the Pike
 language distribution. It will pull in a LOT of packages the
 Pike components depend upon!
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This Pike module enables one to export filesystems to the Linux
 kernel using the FUSE library.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This Pike module provides access to gdbm databases.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package contains the Pike modules providing access to the Mesa
 3D graphics library: GL, GLU (GL Utilities), and GLUE (GL Universal
 Environment).
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package provides many powerful image processing functions to
 Pike programs. It contains the modules Image (except Image.SVG),
 Graphics, Colors, and Protocols.X.XImage.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package contains the Kerberos and GSSAPI Pike modules (although
 GSSAPI is a generic API; Kerberos is the most common mechanism),
 providing bindings to the MIT Kerberos libraries.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package contains Pike modules providing access to MySQL
 databases: Mysql and Sql.mysql(s).
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package contains Pike modules providing glue to the ODBC
 interface: Odbc, Sql.odbc, and Sql.odbc_result.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package contains Pike module providing access to PostgreSQL
 databases: Postgres, Sql.postgres, and Sql.postgres_result.
 .
 Note: These modules are deprecated in favour of the pure Pike
 Sql.pgsql module, which is included in the core package.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This Pike module provides access to SANE.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This module provides the Pike interface to the SDL library.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This Pike module enables one to use the SQLite embedded database
 library.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package provides an SVG graphics format module, Image.SVG. It
 has been separated from the pike8.0-image module because of its quite
 extensive dependencies.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.

 This package contains the Web.Sass module for Pike. Sass is a
 pre-processing language for CSS. It allows you to write cleaner
 stylesheets and makes collaboration on your CSS a breeze.
 .
 Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information
 see the description of the pike8.0-core package.