Bug#173440: ITP: nightfall -- Astronomy program to examine and visualise binary stars
retitle 173440 RFP: nightfall -- Astronomy program to examine and visualise binary stars
thanks
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:16:21PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> Nightfall is an interactive astronomy program for fun, education and
> science. It can generate animated views of eclipsing and non-eclipsing
> binary stars, compute light curves and radial velocity curves, and
> determine best-fit models for observational data.
>
> Preliminary packages are available via
> deb http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/%7ekobras/debian/ unstable/
Okay, more than a year had passed without me getting a package uploaded,
so I'd rather be honest and change this bug to an RFP. As documented in
the bug log, the packaging part is rather trivial--feel free to grab
the preliminary packages from the URL mentioned above. However, as
already documented in the bug log, the itself software in my opinion
needs some polishing before going into the archive: Apart from frequent
crashes in the 3D code, it also sprinkles the current working directory
with output files of fixed name, and if I recall correctly also creates
temporary files in an insecure manner. Since this is potential classroom
software, I'd like to see these issues resolved beforehand, but it's become
obvious that I don't find the motivation to get them fixed. Maybe
someone else can.
Regards,
Daniel.
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