On Fri, 26 May 2006, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
>> I often use some small applications like period, observe, etc., which
>
> FROG was going to supersede PERIOD but FROG wasn't completed. You can
> still find PERIOD in applications/obsolete/period/. Despite its
> location (see the applications/obsolete/README) there is a bootstrap and
> build files present. Peter and Brad made some fixes to PERIOD recently
> so I expect that you can build it in the normal way. Given that people
> are still using it, should we relocate PERIOD to the main applications
> tree?
Yes. I suppose. :-)
>
> I can't recall why OBSERVE is absent: oversight or intentional (e.g.
Was OBSERVE Starlink software? I didn't think it was when I last looked at
it.
> The aim was to at least retain old code even if we weren't going to
> support it ourselves. We'd also create the GNU-build files. If the
> build worked, great, if not, we'd leave it.
Absolutely, but only Starlink code.
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Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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