On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Mark Taylor wrote:
> > Might do SoG now since the amount of additional work is probably small.
>
> on which topic...
>
> AstroGrid do want me to come up with a PLASTICification of a
> WebStartable image viewer alternative to Aladin. Obviously, SoG sprang
> to mind. However, I'm not sure what SoG offers on top of JSkyCat; since
> clearly SoG is and is likely to remain an unfinished project, and I
> presume that you don't want to offer any support for it now, it might
> make both our lives easier if I worked on JSkyCat directly without
> whatever enhancements SoG offers. Can you comment?
Hi Mark,
the things SoG brings into play are support for NDX/NDF (I guess who cares
springs to mind), grid overlays, basic aperture photometry (not
incorporated very well) and some remote control services. I think it's
fair enough to declare it as dying, if not dead, as it didn't get far
enough to be useful in its own right and switch to JSky(cat).
Now for more bad news... The version of JSky in STARJAVA is very out of
date, it's version 2.0 and the latest is 2.6. I seem to remember there was
a biggish restructing job that needed doing in the middle of those, which
is why I never got around to it.
Cheers,
Peter.
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