Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions
On 28-Aug-06, 20:08 (CDT), James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20-Aug-06, 15:43 (CDT), James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aa computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies and performs In English, the beginning of a sentence is capitalized. Consider it to be the program name, rather than the executable. If you can't tolerate this, recast the sentence to avoid beginning with the program name. I'm following the GNU coding standards: If a lower-case identifier comes at the beginning of a sentence, don't capitalize it! Changing the spelling makes it a different identifier. In this usage, the term aa is not an identifier, nor a program executable name. It is a package name. Look at, for example bacula. It seems awkward because 'aa' is not pronouncable, which is why I suggested recasting the sentence. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20-Aug-06, 15:43 (CDT), James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aa computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies and performs In English, the beginning of a sentence is capitalized. Consider it to be the program name, rather than the executable. If you can't tolerate this, recast the sentence to avoid beginning with the program name. I'm following the GNU coding standards: If a lower-case identifier comes at the beginning of a sentence, don't capitalize it! Changing the spelling makes it a different identifier. aa.exe follows the rigorous algorithms for reduction of Is it aa or aa.exe? Presumably the former in Debian. Fixed. input to aa.exe is by single line responses to programmed prompts. Capitilization again. I'm a little concerned about the short name for the package. However, if it's widely known in the field, it's probably okay. aa has been used for a long time. However, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote aa is really ambiguous I think this is a better argument. Why not name it astronomical-almanac? Seems a bit wordy. However I'm getting used to it. It would be more informative in a list of package names. Okay, I'll make the change. - Jim Van Zandt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions
Nacho Barrientos Arias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: navigational stars is included. Most of the algorithms employed are from The Astronomical Almanac (AA) published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Could this algorithms be categorized as free? Is possible (in the U.S) add legal restrictions to this stuff? It's possible to copyright a particular program that implements a free algorithm. Fortunately it is not a problem here, since Steve Moshier is willing to license his work. The Debian package of labplot includes his cephes library which he licensed under GPL. I'm confident we can work something out for aa too. (And of course I won't upload the package until we do.) - Jim Van Zandt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:43:48PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: [...] aa.exe follows the rigorous algorithms for reduction of Is this an application that runs under Mono? If not, it might be good to eliminate references to the .exe suffix from the description -- there is not usually such a thing on a Debian system. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, Ashes to Ashes, stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions
On 20-Aug-06, 15:43 (CDT), James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aa computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies and performs In English, the beginning of a sentence is capitalized. Consider it to be the program name, rather than the executable. If you can't tolerate this, recast the sentence to avoid beginning with the program name. aa.exe follows the rigorous algorithms for reduction of Is it aa or aa.exe? Presumably the former in Debian. input to aa.exe is by single line responses to programmed prompts. Capitilization again. I'm a little concerned about the short name for the package. However, if it's widely known in the field, it's probably okay. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: aa Version : 5.6 Upstream Author : Steve Moshier [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.moshier.net/ * License : under discussion (probably GPL) Programming Lang: C Description : astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions aa computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies and performs rigorous coordinate reductions to apparent geocentric and topocentric place (local altitude and azimuth). It also reduces star catalogue positions given in either the FK4 or FK5 system. Data for the 57 navigational stars is included. Most of the algorithms employed are from The Astronomical Almanac (AA) published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. aa.exe follows the rigorous algorithms for reduction of celestial coordinates exactly as laid out in current editions of the Astronomical Almanac. The reduction to apparent geocentric place has been checked by a special version of the program (aa200) that takes planetary positions directly from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory DE200 numerical integration of the solar system. The results agree exactly with the Astronomical Almanac tables from 1987 onward (earlier Almanacs used slightly different reduction methods). Certain computations, such as the correction for nutation, are not given explicitly in the AA but are referenced there. In these cases the program performs the full computations that are used to construct the Almanac tables (references are provided). input to aa.exe is by single line responses to programmed prompts. Output is written to stdout. aa was used to generate the lunar distance tables at http://www.math.uu.nl/people/wepster/ldtab.html - Jim Van Zandt -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James R. Van Zandt wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: aa Version : 5.6 Upstream Author : Steve Moshier [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.moshier.net/ * License : under discussion (probably GPL) Programming Lang: C Description : astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions aa computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies and performs rigorous coordinate reductions to apparent geocentric and topocentric aa is really ambiguous, since it could also mean, for example, anti-aliased. Why not name it astronomical-almanac? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE6OT7S9HxQb37XmcRAiDXAJ4i83pIXUC+XlFZKyNoqPb/yhdKqQCfUd7p JGlC+Na/f8sGsuw0bmrLrYQ= =AUYY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
