Hey *, thanks for your great feedback! > Would it be possible to have a name a bit less generic and short ? It is > not a command-line tool that people are likely to use on a regular > basis, as far as I can tell.
Uhm, you are right :-/ I've choosen 'sun' because of the signature of the tool:
usage: sun mode [options]
mode is one of: rise, set, noon, daytime, nighttime
The name 'sun' allows you to create easy readable expressions like:
sun rise --query Sydney
Whats about 'solar' or 'suntime'? Any other suggestions?
> Sounds like an interesting project. Have you already uploaded your
> package to Debian mentors [1] to ask for sponsorship?
I've created a RFS [1]
> FWIW, two existing way to do that that are already in Debian
> are the packages remind and libdatetime-astro-sunrise-perl.
Yes, that's correct. I already knew that before I started working on 'sun'.
I decided to choose ANSI C as language to be fast an portable.
I planning to use 'sun' on a very small embedded system.
And second, the algorithm I used for this package keeps place for enhancements
to
calculate the suns position (declination, rightascension).
I'm not really a fan of these perl-modules. That's not my understanding
of small, fast & portable tools as it is being contemplated in the UNIX
paradigm.
There's already an updated upstream version. I added a simple caching
for geonames.org lookups. So I reuploaded the package to debian-mentors
[2].
Regards,
Steffen Vogel
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696600
[2] http://mentors.debian.net/package/sun
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