Bug#1029549: ITP: unity-java -- Multi-syntax unit parsing

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-astro@lists.debian.org, debian-java@lists.debian.org, debian-science@lists.debian.org


 * Package name    : unity-java
   Version         : 1.1b
   Upstream Author : Norman Gray
 * URL             : https://purl.org/nxg/dist/unity
 * License         : BSD-2-Clause
   Programming Lang: Java
   Description     : Multi-syntax unit parsing

The library was written with the following goals:

* Producing formal grammars of the existing and proposed standard unit
  syntaxes, for reference purposes.

* Producing parsing libraries which are fast and standalone, and so
  could be conveniently used by other software; this also acts as an
  implementation of the VOUnits standard.

It is not a goal for this library to do any processing of the resulting
units, such as unit conversion or arithmetic. Parsing unit strings isn't
a deep or particularly interesting problem, but it's more fiddly than
one might expect, and so it's useful for it to be done properly once.

The package will be maintained by the Debian Astro team. It is a new
dependency of the starjava packages.

A git repository will be created at

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/unity-java

Best regards

Ole