MarekMahut/Packaging

= Marek Mahut's notes =

My notes about packaging.

Software nice to have for Astronomy
Collection of software I would like to review and include in Fedora.

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 * <#8080FF> Software Name||<#8080FF> Description ||<#8080FF> Link ||<#8080FF> License
 * aa || This program computes ephemerides of Sun, Moon, planets, comets, and stars using rigorous reduction methods from the _Astronomical Almanac_ and related sources. || http://moshier.net/aadoc.html || dunno
 * Accrete || Accrete is a physical simulation of solar system planet formation. This simulation works by modelling a dust cloud around a Sun-like star, injecting a series of masses which collect dust, and form planets by accretion. || http://sourceforge.net/projects/accrete || Public Domain
 * jdate || A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates. Also useful for astronomy applications. || http://sourceforge.net/projects/jday/ || BSD
 * Nightfall || Nightfall is an astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views of eclipsing binary stars, calculate synthetic lightcurves and radial velocity curves, and eventually determine the best-fit model for a given set of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system || http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Wichmann/Nightfall.html || GPL
 * Nova || Nova is a free integrated observational environment for amateur astronomers. It's aim is to combine ephemeris, sky view, observatory control and basic image capture functionality into an easy to use Gnome application. || http://nova.sourceforge.net/ || GPL
 * Orsa || ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, Solar and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed. || http://orsa.sourceforge.net/index.html || GPL
 * Planets || Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems, released under the GPL || http://planets.homedns.org/ || GPL
 * pp3 || PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution independent maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used for example as illustrations in books or on web pages. You may use own databases or free ones from the Internet || http://pp3.sourceforge.net/ || GPL
 * rmap || rmap is a package that will allow you to generate images of the earth from a distance or fairly zoomed in || reza.net || ?
 * SAOimage || SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical images in the X11 window environment. || http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage/ || ?
 * StarPlot || StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space. || http://www.starplot.org/ || GPL
 * ESO-MIDAS || The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. || http://www.eso.org/sci/data-processing/software/esomidas/ || GPL
 * Orsa || ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, Solar and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed. || http://orsa.sourceforge.net/index.html || GPL
 * Planets || Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems, released under the GPL || http://planets.homedns.org/ || GPL
 * pp3 || PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution independent maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used for example as illustrations in books or on web pages. You may use own databases or free ones from the Internet || http://pp3.sourceforge.net/ || GPL
 * rmap || rmap is a package that will allow you to generate images of the earth from a distance or fairly zoomed in || reza.net || ?
 * SAOimage || SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical images in the X11 window environment. || http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage/ || ?
 * StarPlot || StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space. || http://www.starplot.org/ || GPL
 * ESO-MIDAS || The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. || http://www.eso.org/sci/data-processing/software/esomidas/ || GPL
 * SAOimage || SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical images in the X11 window environment. || http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage/ || ?
 * StarPlot || StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space. || http://www.starplot.org/ || GPL
 * ESO-MIDAS || The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. || http://www.eso.org/sci/data-processing/software/esomidas/ || GPL
 * StarPlot || StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space. || http://www.starplot.org/ || GPL
 * ESO-MIDAS || The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. || http://www.eso.org/sci/data-processing/software/esomidas/ || GPL
 * ESO-MIDAS || The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. || http://www.eso.org/sci/data-processing/software/esomidas/ || GPL