Bug#832918: ITP stilts -- Astronomical Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
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package: wnpp
Owner: Paul Sladen <debian@paul.sladen.org>
Severity: Wishlist
* Package Name: stilts
* Version: v3.0-7
* Upstream Author: Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk>
* URL: http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/stilts/
* Programming Language: Java
* License: GPL, GPL+Classpath, LGPL, Apache, CDDL,
* Description: Astronomical Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
Stilts (Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set) is a
command-line and scriptable interface for handling tables within the
astronomical observatory. Stilts can handle and convert between a
number of astronomical table formats, including FITS, ColFITS,
VOTable, NASA CDF, ASCII, CSV/TSV/TST, Gaia DPAC GBIN (additional
dependencies required), IPAC, and WDC; viz:
http://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/sun253/inFormats.html
For packaging, we will need to add a '/usr/bin/stilts' wrapper:
http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/stilts/sun256/sun256.html#stilts-cmd
http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/stilts/sun256/sun256.html#invoke
Which will probably contain something like:
exec java -classpath topcat-lite.jar uk.ac.starlink.ttools.Stilts
It is built upon the Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
(STIL) and is the command-line counterpart to the graphical
'Topcat' application. From the wrapper command we can see the close
relationship to Topcat, although hopefully more modularisation can be
achieved so that only 'default-jre-headless' is required.
In addition to the large dependency list shared with Topcat, a number
of those dependencies in turn come from Starlink which has sub-modules
with several licences. The various licences are documented by
Upstream in:
http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/stilts/LICENSE.txt
and a fuller-audit will be required about the precise
dependency relationship and corresponding licence compatilibity.
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