On 2009-01-30 10:52-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > The QSAS team lead by Steve Schwartz have donated time-handling software to > PLplot under the LGPL license today.
I think it is best to keep this as a separate library with the name qsastime. qsastime has no google hits at all. Alternative library names such as mjdtime, icltime, time, and freetime were considered, but all of those have potential present or future name clashes as revealed by lots of google hits. (I am concerned about such name clashes because I even ran into such a clash with my FreeEOS project). qsastime is also consistent with our naming convention for the csa and nn libraries which we called csironn and csirocsa in honor of the institution of the individual that donated the code to us while simultaneously dealing with name clash concerns. Accordingly, I have just (revision 9433) committed the code and html documentation of that code in lib/qsastime and also updated our build system (revision 9434) to build and install that library, make libplplotd build-depend on that library (even though libplplotd currently has no calls to that library), and build an executable in lib/qsastime in the build tree to test the qsastime library. The build and test code all work fine for me on Debian testing. However, I need volunteers to deal with the visibility issues, windows build, etc. Further work to actually use that library from within plplot for all time-related issues is planned but not implemented yet. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
