Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry <mckins...@debian.org>
* Package name : eckit Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : European Centre for Medium-Range Forecasts <softw...@ecmwf.int> * URL : http://github.com/ecmwf/eckit * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ toolkit for ECMWF tools and Applications ecKit is a cross-platform c++ toolkit that supports development of tools and applications at ECMWF. It is based on code developed over the last 20 years within the MARS software and was re-factored out to be reused by other applications. It provides a an abstraction layer on top of the operating system, so it is easier to port code to new architectures. It is developed taking into account the robustness requirements of running production systems at ECMWF. The main focus is UNIX/POSIX systems, and it has been thoroughly tested on AIX, Linux and Mac OSX. Historically, the code base pre-dates and in some way can be seen as a leaner substitute for some 'Boost' libraries. It features facilities to easily handle, in a cross-platform way: multi-threading json and yaml parsing object serialization and persistence configuration of user options and resources file-system abstraction regular expressions socket networking http protocol type-to-type conversions asynchronous IO asynchronous processing exception handling and stack dumping MPI object-oriented wrapper linear algebra abstraction with multiple backends (BLAS, MKL, Armadillo, Eigen3) advanced container classes space partition trees file-mapped arrays libeckit is currently already used in several ECMWF packages on Debian (metview, odb-api) and provided in odb-api. This will refactor it out as a shared library.
