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

[Mickaël Gastineau]

Dear Thibaut,


Le 20/03/14 09:16, Thibaut Paumard a écrit :
> Dear Mickael,
>
> I'm also working at Observatoire de Paris (in Meudon). Perhaps we should
> organize a meeting there with our colleagues?
Yes, of course.

>
> 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
>
I will try to submit to the request.

> 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?

I know that the developpment branch of the open-source tool tempo2 (application for 
pulsar) uses our library:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/tempo2/


Best regards,

Mickaël

>
> 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
>>
>>
>

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