Re: Bug#610181: ITP: pywps -- Python implementation of the Web Processing Service standard

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi,

I think this package is a good candidate for Debian GIS.  However, I'm wondering
which task might fit best.  Any suggestion?

Kind regards

   Andreas.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:55:23PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : pywps
>   Version         : 3.1.0
>   Upstream Author : Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi com>
>                     Luca Casagrande <luca.casagrande at gmail com>
>                     Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at centrum cz>
>                     Stepan Kafka <kafka at email cz>
>                     Panagiotis Skintzos <p at pskintzos net>
> * URL             : http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/
> * License         : GPL-2
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : Python implementation of the Web Processing Service standard
> 
>  WPS stands for Web Processing Service and it is a standard OGC (Open
>  Geospatial Consortium) protocol to make GIS calculations/models available
>  to the Internet. In theory WPS should be able to describe any process, run
>  it using pre-defined input/output and report error and status.
>  .
>  WPS supports simultaneous exposure of processes via HTTP GET, HTTP POST and
>  SOAP, thus allowing the client to choose the most appropriate interface
>  mechanism, normally the processes's metadata is gathered using HTTP GET while
>  its execution is done using HTTP POST.
>  .
>  PyWPS is an implementation of this protocol in Python.
> 
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