[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  2006-10-23 08:08 EST -------
(In reply to comment #32)

> That kind of data may be legally redistributed by fedora, however
> it will be troublesome if somebody sells fedora. So they definitively
> cannot be packaged as-is. It seems to me that the best thing to do 
> would be to add a README/something in the description in the packages 
> needing the harmonics file and provide a shell script which does a 
> wget on the file, run the tcd-util conversion on it and install, 
> or alternatively download directly the .tcd file.

Well, I will try to contact upstream (perhaps for harmonics data,
It is Bob Kenney <rmk at unh.edu> according to
http://bel-marduk.unh.edu/xtide/files.html ), however, perhaps the 
best plan FOR NOW is not to provide harmonics data from Fedora
and provide some document as of how to get harmonics tcd data.

> The wvs file should be used (provided the licence is acceptable for
> fedora). I couldn't find the licence at the url provided at the xtide 
> page. Maybe ask upstream or the NOAA?
> http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/93mgg01.html
> http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO5/BOUNDARY/WVS/

Well, once I tried to check WVS data, however this are binary data and
perhaps I cannot verify legal issue until I contact to upstream.

> 
> From reading of the code, one can set the WVS_DIR variable to
> the directory holding the wvs data files, or it may be listed in 
> xtide.conf. 
> 
> It seems to me that WVS_DIR must be set for tideEditor.

Well, I must check the code because currently don't know how
the environment WVS_DIR is used (is this needed?)

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Summary:
A. I will try to contact upstream, however, my current plan is to
    completely drop harmonics data from binary rpm and add a document
    for this issue (I would appeciate it if you make some template for
    this). 
A-1 By the way providing some shell script is necessary?
     I think only explaining how to get tcd data is more preferable
     because anyway people have to browse a URL to choose the original
     harmonics text.

B. I will check WVS_DIR in source code.

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Is it okay?
    



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