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Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition



I think the comedi-source package will fit nicely here as well. 

Another idea is to include librtai-dev librtai1, rtai, rtai-doc and
rtai-sourc. I used them for sending trigger signals to a laser and
camera in my software.

Gerber


On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 09:12 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote:
> 
> > Depends: g3data
> 
> Done in SVN.
> 
> > Other packages - yes, Steffen Moeller's suggestion of qtdmm sounds
> > appropriate.
> 
> Done in SVN.
> 
> > On the physics wiki page, I list
> >
> > libgpib (boris)
> 
> Suggests: libgpib-bin
> 
> > libcomedi (boris)
> 
> Depends: ktimetrace
> 
> > and link to
> >
> >    "G. Varoquaux has written an interesting article describing the
> >     use of python and pyvisa for experimental control. Agile computer
> >     control of a complex experiment. Computing in Science and
> >     Engineering 10(2), 55 (2008)."
> > and
> >    "Writing a graphical application for scientific programming using
> >     TraitsUI"
> >
> > pyvisa isn't a debian package.
> 
> Done as prospective package.
> 
> > There are also unofficial debs of TANGO - again linked to from the
> > physics wiki. Unfortunately, there is an ITP for another completely
> > unrelated package called tango recently announced on debian-devel.
> 
> Done as prospective package.  Any volunteer to sponsor this package?
> And yes, I have seen the tango ITP - but I do not really remember whether
> somebody stepped in here and discussed the possible name clash.  Please
> anybody interested in tango should do so ...
> 
> > http://mx.iit.edu/ MX - A Data Acquisition and Control System. Is not
> > packaged.
> 
> Done as prospective package.
> 
> > http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/ Experimental Physics and Industrial
> > Control System is used in some particle accelerators, telescopes and
> > other large scientific experments.
> 
> Done as prospective package.
> 
> >>
> >> Depends: gnudatalanguage
> >
> > It isn't clear to me why you think this should be under data
> > acquisition - any more than octave,matplotlib,pdl,scilab,freemat -
> > listed in the "Numerical Computation (MATLAB/IDL like)" section of the
> > physics wiki page[1].
> 
> Well, there is no really strong opinion on my side.  I turned the
> Depends into Suggests.  Feel free to either remove it completely or
> add the other ones as well - depending what you feel reasonable for
> people who want to prepare a computer for data acquisition tasks.
> 
> > You might make an argument that
> >
> >    * gpiv gpivtools A collection of programs for images that are
> >      generated during a Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
> >      experiment. This is a technique to obtain the velocity field of
> >      a fluid flow quantitatively and is performed by tracking tracer
> >      particles that have been seeded to a fluid.
> >
> > would be a good candidate - I'm not sure.
> 
> I added this as Suggests.
> 
> > If the task gets big enough,
> > then I think that this along with g3data and engauge-digitizer should
> > be split into an "Extracting data from images" task.
> 
> I'm no fan of to many tasks.
> 
> > The robotics task has
> >
> > Libcv1 - a computer vision library
> 
> What do you want to tell me by this?
> 
> The result can be viewed at
> 
>      http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/dataacquisition.html
> 
> > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Physics
> 
> Interesting page.  Do you want to save some time while generating nicer and
> more feature rich output?  If yes you should tell me that you volunteer to
> maintain
> 
>      svn://svn.debian.org/svn/cdd/projects/physics/trunk/debian-physics
> 
> after I gave you a kick-start by turning the entries from your wiki into
> tasks files (which I could probably do until Sunday).  The immediate effect
> would be to have finer grained tasks pages for physics packages (including
> translations for those packages where DDTP has translations), bugs pages
> and hopefully soon an overview about watch status.  The long term effect
> would be that there might evolved a grown up Debian Physics Blend.  Your
> Wiki can be considered as the first step - IMHO it is time to do the next.
> 
> Regarding the time saving aspect: The dataacquisition page took me about
> 15 minutes (the green entries only one minute, the othes costs some
> research on upstream websites).  Do you think the Wiki can compete with
> this?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>          Andreas.
> 
> -- 
> http://fam-tille.de
> 
> 


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