Supported Platforms and Interfaces

Spread is currently ported to the following platforms:

Unix:

BSDI 4
Linux
Solaris
Irix 6.5.3 (MIPS)
AIX (powerpc)
FreeBSD (x86)
NetBSD (x86, ppc)
OpenBSD (x86)
Mac OS X (ppc)

Windows 32:

Windows 95, 98
Windows NT, 2000, XP

Languages:

C/C++ libraries with and without thread support.
Java Class to be used by applets or applications.
Perl interface.
Python interface.
Ruby interface.

Externally Supported Languages and Development Tools

A number of people have created language bindings and other development tools to support the use of the Spread toolkit. This section provides links to these resources.

Title	Description	Notes	Location
OcamlSpread	Objective Caml bindings	Early release, looking for maintainer.	ocamlspread.sourceforge.net
Perl Spread	Perl bindings		cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Spread
Perl Session	Object Oriented Perl bindings		http://search.cpan.org/~jmay/Spread-Session-0.4/Session.pm
Ruby Spread	Ruby bindings		www.omniti.com/~george/rb_spread/
Squeak Spread	Squeak Smalltalk bindings		bike-nomad.com/squeak/
PHP for Spread	PHP bindings		www.omniti.com/~george/php_spread/ or pecl.php.net/package/spread
Sava Spread Bindings	C++/Python/Ruby/Perl bindings	Multiple langauage bindings using an object-oriented approach with good documentation. Developed by Daniel Savarese	www.savarese.com/software/
Python Spread	Python bindings	Maintained by Python/Zope team.	www.python.org/other/spread/ or http://www.zope.org/Members/tim_one/spread/view
Python Spread (Spread 4.0)	Python bindings	Based on Python Spread with patch by Bill Noon.	Patch available at www.spread.org/files/python-spread-1.5_fix_for_Spread4.patch or http://commedia.cnds.jhu.edu/pipermail/spread-users/2006-December/003168.html. New version of Python Spread with patch applied can be downloaded. http://www.spread.org/files/SpreadModule-1.5spread4.tgz
Py-Spread	Alternative Python bindings	Supports Spread 4	http://code.google.com/p/py-spread/
C# Spread	C# bindings and sample programs	Developed by Darin Peshev dpeshev at axarosenberg.com	cspread.zip
Lua Spread	Lua bindings	Developed by Taj Khattra	pobox.com/~taj.khattra/luaspread.html
Scheme Spread	Scheme bindings	Developed by Felix Winkelmann	www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/spread.html
TCL Spread	TCL bindings		http://wiki.tcl.tk/14139
Spread-Excel	Microsoft Excel Pub/Sub bindings for Spread	Developed by Jim Kleckner	http://code.google.com/p/spread-excel/
Spread-rs	Rust implementation of Spread client library.	Developed by Evan Meagher	https://github.com/evnm/spread.rs