Re: Would this be the right mailing list for thermodynamic property tables? eg. steam tables?
Hi Martin,
I've packaged python-gsw and python-iapws97 for Debian and they've been
there
for a bit. I use them in my oceanography work.
We should look for commonality in the packages.
regards
Alastair
On 21/07/2015 17:53, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:24:08PM +0200, Martin Lord wrote:
>> I have decided to teach myself C and about the steam tables I use for my
>> daily work by programming a set of IAPWS - IF 97 steam tables.
>>
>> It is not yet complete but what I have so far is here.
>> https://C4rnot@bitbucket.org/C4rnot/if97lib
>>
>> I was wondering how I might eventually go about making it available once
>> done. Have I come to the right place?
> I don't know what steam tables are but if it is something you want to
> provide as Debian packages you might be at the right place.
>
>> There is actually a set of steam tables called Freesteam written already by
>> Jon Pye, which I believe is under a GPL licence (sourceforge is down today
>> so I can't actually open its homepage a the moment to confirm) and includes
>> bindings for Python and Ascend which you might consider packaging.
> To my experience it is not very promising to wait until somebody else
> has done the packaging work. However, if you have precise questions
> about packaging you can get help here.
>
>> I had some difficulty getting the .deb provided by freesteam to work on
>> Ubuntu, as there appeared to be something wrong with the Ascend package
>> (which I apt-got) on Ubuntu, but it worked when I compiled it (without the
>> ascend bindings) rather than installing the .deb
> Could you provide a link to the source package (*.dsc) of what you
> tried to install?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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