Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 10:06:28AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > PS: Has somebody talked with the XEphem author to make it DFSG-free? What's > wrong with us in natural sciences? Why are we so infected by this "noone > will steal my work" metality? Why do we tend to write such stupid

Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-16 Thread Mikolaj J. Habryn
> "RBK" == Richard B Kreckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RBK> However, such a RBK> server is probably not very attractive to package since there RBK> are fast and reliable servers for such things on the net RBK> (like the above) and XEphem is the only program using it at RB

Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-15 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
First, thanks for all the comments. On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 09:23:12PM +0100, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > > > I am about to build some packages of astronomical databases to be used > > with Elwood Downey's XEphem, packaged by Frank Jordan for slin

Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 09:23:12PM +0100, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > I am about to build some packages of astronomical databases to be used > with Elwood Downey's XEphem, packaged by Frank Jordan for slink. Since > some of these databases are quite large I would like to hear what people > think a

Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-15 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 14 January 1999, at 13 h 16, the keyboard of Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Id say, package it and put it into a seperate directory.. either a "non-cd" > directory or a directory that could later become a "data set cd" file. We've > got other large data sets that could be

Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > I am about to build some packages of astronomical databases to be used > with Elwood Downey's XEphem, packaged by Frank Jordan for slink. Since > some of these databases are quite large I would like to hear what people > think about a possible split-up. The packages will

RE: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-14 Thread Darren Benham
On 14-Jan-99 Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > I am about to build some packages of astronomical databases to be used > with Elwood Downey's XEphem, packaged by Frank Jordan for slink. Since > some of these databases are quite large I would like to hear what people > think about a possible split-up. The

Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> To wrap things up, there are 5 options: > a) 160M GSC + 8.7M asteroids + 4.3M PPM + 4.1M others > b) 160M GSC + 8.7M asteroids + 8.4M PPM and others<-- nice > c) 160M GSC + 17.1M other catalogs > d) 4.3M PPM + 4.1M others > e) 8.4M PPM and others > of which I prefer the sec

Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-14 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
Hi; I am about to build some packages of astronomical databases to be used with Elwood Downey's XEphem, packaged by Frank Jordan for slink. Since some of these databases are quite large I would like to hear what people think about a possible split-up. The packages will be part of non-free, the mai