[Bug 211626] Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world

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Summary: Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211626





------- Additional Comments From mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp  2006-11-13 06:20 EST -------
(In reply to comment #78)
> Upstream here. 
Thank you for replying to me and joining this bugzilla ticket.

> tcd-utils is for the other 1% who actually do know enough to edit tide
> data in a meaningful way and have reason to do it.  It was never
> cleaned up for the 99% market.  The people who use it (counted on one
> hand) have never complained about having to compile it from ugly
> source snapshots.
My idea is that providing tcd-utils is very preferable for people
who lives where the tcd data is not provided originally (like me, in
Japan). The person may get harmonics data near their location and
may have to create tcd data by their own.

> 
> The inclusion of tcd-utils in Fedora was perhaps motivated by some
> policy that discouraged shipping binary files?
Originally it was so.

> harmonics-dwf from
> http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html is maintained by me.  The
> legalese for harmonics-dwf is at
> http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/harmonics_boilerplate.txt. 
Umm, anyway I cannot include harmonics-dwf data into this package
because the restriction of 'non-commercial' or 'without charge' cannot
be accepted.

> > A-1: How do you think of providing libtcd shared dynamic library seperately?
> 
> This makes sense if you really do want to deliver tideEditor or other
> extras in Fedora.  But do you *really* want to do that?
For the left two utilities in tcd-utils (build_tide_db, restore_tide_db) 
is preferable as described above. Those who have to get harmonics data
by themself may want to use tideEditor, too.

> > So,
> > B-1: how do you think of moving tideEditor to XTide tarball?
> 
> It would make sense if it were used by more than 1% of users.  But I
> don't think that it is, or would be, even if it were installed for
> them automagically.  
Patrice and Michael, what do you think of this?



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