On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> > It's used in 3 different applications, prefixed with pda_ but shouldn't be
> > factored out???
>
> I'm with Tim on this.
As am I.
> If we don't do the factoring now, we'll never do
> it. The code may have to be supported in the community. Besides our
> reputations, having the same or almost identical code in many places is
> only going to confuse and make support harder. Making the private PDA
> code more visible in the PDA package means it can potentially be used by
> others.
>
> Nobody is going to look in GAIA or CCDPACK for a PDA routine.
Good, they shouldn't. Neither of those is a library.
> What's the state of the CCDPACK routines KAPPA uses for statistical
> combination?
Same as they have always been, although it seems the KAPPA versions are
diverging.
> Are those too CCDPACK-specific for a publically accessible library?
I would say not, are you volunteering to do this work, it would mean
merging both systems.
Peter.
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