[Stardata-common-devel] stardata-common uploaded to alioth
Kevin B. McCarty
kmccarty@Princeton.EDU
Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:38:53 -0400
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Hi Francisco, Javi,
Francisco Garc=EDa wrote:
> Soon, I will prepare an Starplot and Gliese package according to
> stardata-common policy.
Cool! May I suggest that you remove the starplot format conversion spec=20
files from the gliese and yale packages, and instead put them into the=20
starplot package somewhere? (Maybe in /usr/share/starplot/specfiles/ or=20
somewhere like that.) I guess the new starplot package will have to=20
Depend upon stardata-common, and Conflict against older versions of=20
gliese and yale, right?
> By now, I have made a stardata-common native Debian package too,
> and you can find in:
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> http://usuarios.lycos.es/franciscogarciac/debian/stardata-common/
I just had a chance to look at it. I am attaching a patch to try to=20
make some of the English flow a little more smoothly.
I'm wondering why you chose to write register-stardata in C. It seems=20
to me that maybe it would be a little easier to maintain this sort of=20
program in shell or perl. (Also it would allow stardata-common to be=20
Arch: all instead of Arch: any.) Please do not take this as criticism,=20
I am sure you have good reasons for this choice - I just am curious to=20
know them :-)
By the way, I am intending to ITP a hipparcos-data package at some=20
point, just to let you know. But it may not happen until my doctoral=20
thesis is finished, several months from now :-( After it happens, we=20
may want to get into discussion with the stellarium maintainer.
best regards,
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Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University
GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
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diff -urN stardata-common-0.1.orig/debian/control stardata-common-0.1/debian/control
--- stardata-common-0.1.orig/debian/control 2005-01-23 18:12:07.000000000 -0500
+++ stardata-common-0.1/debian/control 2005-04-08 16:22:01.069791895 -0400
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: common framework to manage astronomy packages
- This package allows installing and removing astronomy catalogues,
- converting those catalogues to astronomy programs data formats.
+ This package allows the installation and removal of astronomy catalogues,
+ converting those catalogues to astronomy programs' data formats.
.
- All stardata catalogues according to stardata-common policy are installed
- and converted automatically to astronomy programs formats, which are according
- to stardata-common too, available in the system.
+ All stardata catalogues conforming to stardata-common policy are
+ converted automatically at installation time to the formats of
+ astronomy programs that support stardata-common.
.
- register-stardata program is transparent for the user, this program is called
- automatically when any astronomy package according to stardata-common
- policy is installed, upgraded or removed.
\ No newline at end of file
+ The register-stardata program is transparent for the user; this program is
+ called automatically when any astronomy package conforming to stardata-common
+ policy is installed, upgraded or removed.
diff -urN stardata-common-0.1.orig/doc/register-stardata.1 stardata-common-0.1/doc/register-stardata.1
--- stardata-common-0.1.orig/doc/register-stardata.1 2005-01-23 12:51:37.000000000 -0500
+++ stardata-common-0.1/doc/register-stardata.1 2005-04-08 16:25:42.775539201 -0400
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
.TH "register-stardata" "1" "0.1" "Francisco Garcia <franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es>" "stardata-common"
.SH "NAME"
.LP
-register\-stardata \- Install or remove stardata catalogues and astronomy programs
+register\-stardata \- Install or remove star data catalogues and astronomy programs
.SH "SYNTAX"
.LP
register\-stardata [\fIoption\fP] {\fIinstall\fP|\fIremove\fP} {\fIall\fP|\fIstardata\fP} {\fIall\fP|\fIprogram\fP}
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.LP
-register\-stardata is a program to install and remove stardata catalogues, according to
-the stardata\-common policy, to astronomy programs data formats.
+register\-stardata is a program to convert star data catalogues, that conform to
+the stardata\-common policy, to astronomy programs' data formats automatically on package install and removal.
.br
-stardata\-common is a common framework to manage the insertion and removal of stardata catalogues in a Debian system.
-This program liberates the user of the installation and conversion
-of stardata catalogues to the astronomy programs data formats,
-making it automatically during the installation. And removing them when uninstall.
+stardata\-common is a common framework to manage the insertion and removal of star data catalogues in a Debian system.
+This program liberates the user from managing the installation and conversion
+of star data catalogues to the astronomy programs' data formats,
+converting them automatically during the installation and removing them at uninstall.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.LP
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.LP
-To install yale stardata catalogue to all astronomy programas available in the system:
+To make the yale stardata catalogue available in formats understood by all astronomy programs available in the system:
.LP
register\-stardata install yale all
.LP
-To remove all starplot data format catalogues installed:
+To remove the starplot format versions of all catalogues installed:
.LP
register\-stardata remove all starplot
.SH "AUTHORS"
diff -urN stardata-common-0.1.orig/src/register-stardata.c stardata-common-0.1/src/register-stardata.c
--- stardata-common-0.1.orig/src/register-stardata.c 2005-04-02 04:17:13.000000000 -0500
+++ stardata-common-0.1/src/register-stardata.c 2005-04-08 16:28:08.509597155 -0400
@@ -41,9 +41,12 @@
"register-stardata 0.1";
static char doc[] =
- "register-stardata -- Install or remove stardata catalogues to astronomy software data formats \013\
-'action' = {install|remove}, 'stardata' is the dataset to update, or 'all' for all available stardata catalogues, \
-'program' is the software package data format to convert the datasets, or 'all' for all available astronomy packages.";
+ "register-stardata -- Install or remove stardata catalogues to the native\n\
+format of astronomy software data formats.\n\
+'action' = {install|remove},\n\
+'stardata' is the dataset to update, or 'all' for all available catalogues,\n\
+'program' is the software package data format to convert the datasets, or\n\
+ 'all' for all available astronomy packages.";
static char args_doc[] =
"<action> <stardata> <program>";
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