[Debian-astro-maintainers] idea for the Astronomy working group : calceph

[Thibaut Paumard]

Dear Mickael,

I'm also working at Observatoire de Paris (in Meudon). Perhaps we should
organize a meeting there with our colleagues?

Regarding CALCEPH, would you be so kind as to send a formal [1]RFP bug
against the wnpp pseudo-package? Its a breeze using reportbug. Since the
debian-astro mailing list still doesn't exist, please copy
debian-science at lists.debian.org and
debian-astro-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org (using the X-Debbug-CC
pseudo-header if you don't use reportbug, see [2]).

[1] https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
[2] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

Finally, we typically don't package libraries for the sake of them. Is
there a binary tool that would make use of the library, such as a python
module for instance?

Kind regards, Thibaut.

Le 19/03/2014 22:40, Mickael Gastineau a écrit :
> Dear all,
> 
> I read the request for the creation, ideas of the astronomy working
> group for the debian distribution.  I am happy to see the interest for
> astronomy in the debian group.
> 
> I am the main developer of the library CALCEPH available at :
> http://www.imcce.fr/inpop/calceph/
> 
> TThis library is designed to access the binary planetary ephemeris
> files, such INPOPxx, JPL DExxx and SPICE ephemeris files.
> his library computes the positions and velocities of the planets,
> asteroids of the solar system using these ephemeris files.
> 
> So it could be a good idea to make a package of this library as the
> planetary ephemerides are used by many astronomy applications.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mickaël Gastineau
> 
>