Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : lib-healpix-c++ Version : 3.83_2024Nov13 is the current version Upstream Contact: https://sourceforge.net/u/hivon, https://sourceforge.net/u/reinecke, https://sourceforge.net/u/ejoliet, https://sourceforge.net/u/womulane or https://sourceforge.net/u/kmgorski * URL : https://healpix.sourceforge.io/ or https://sourceforge.net/projects/healpix/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ library for Healpix representation of spherical data
Healpix projections are used, particularly in astronomy and physics, for displaying and manipulating full-sphere data that vary as a function of lat/long or RA/dec. Debian includes a C library (libchealpix0 and libchealpix-dev) that implements a subset of functions for manipulating Healpix data. But that library is rather sparse as compared to the much fuller set of functions available in the C++ version of the library (and, of course, the functions that the C library does provide are not particularly easy to incorporate into programs written in an object-oriented C++ manner, particularly if exception handling is used). Using the C library to emulate some of the functions that are present in the C++ library can be done, but it requires rather detailed knowledge of the mathematics of the Healpix projection, which an ordinary user would not have. This request is for the full C++ library.
