Bug#278868: ITP: aips -- Astronomical Image Processing System
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : aips
Version : 20041029
Upstream Author : NRAO <aipsmail@nrao.edu>
* URL : http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/
* License : GPL
Description : Astronomical Image Processing System from NRAO
The Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for
calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and a variety of
ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data. It comes from the National
Radio Astronomy Observatory. It is primarily for Radio Astronomy.
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Homepage: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/
Developers, this is a very large package. I'm not even sure if its
appropriate for inclusion in Debian. I will be keeping a copy in my
personal repository, along with all the other astronomy software.
At the moment I'm not even sure how large; it is meant to keep all the
source code along with the executables (and sync via cvs every night
via cron..). The *source* targzball is 67M at 69% compression. But
now I have to come up with a way to isolate the runtime files from the
install files (unfortunately not disjoint).
(The Debian version will not do the nightly CVS thing, btw).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable'), (9, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-rc1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
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