Plans and Activities
This page gives a summary of the current GIPSY software plans and activities.
Top priority items
- INSPECTOR
- Convert from Xlib to Xtoolkit environment. Make program user friendly
for overlay of rotation curves over slices.
Status: in progress
- XGAUFIT, XGAUFIT
- Upgrade old programs gaufit, profit, and gauprof with new
graphical user interface and new functionality.
Status: READY
- RENDER
- Render 2d- and 3d GIPSY data and display 2d-slices at any angle.
- ROTMAS
- Determine mass components of a galaxy from its rotation curve.
Status: READY
- Hermes
- Implement event-driven user interaction, including a simple graphical
user interface which allows parameters to be set, options te be chosen, etc.
Status: READY
- Miscellaneous tasks
- Fit with the new graphical user interface. First identify which tasks
are suitable and which tasks benefit most.
Status: in progress
- FITS, AIPS++
- Upgrade GIPSY's FITS interface so that the interchange of data with other
packages like AIPS++ will become more flexible. See also:
Proposal.
Investigate the possibility of accessing FITS files transparantly.
Status: in progress
- PGPLOT
- Install latest version (5.2.0) of library and some new drivers, e.g.
the GIF driver.
Decide whether PGPLOT's own ANSI-C interface should also be implemented.
Status: READY
Second priority items
- ANTPAT
- Implement fitting of one-dimensional antenna patterns.
Status: waiting
- CONVOLV
- New program to do a convolution in the Fourier domain.
It would be faster than SMOOTH for big maps and/or convolution functions.
Status: waiting
- GIDS
- Improve
Status: waiting
- REPORT
- General revision. Allow selection on basis of report category:
`outstanding/fixed', `bug/wish', etc. Implement ``responsible person''
for cases where this is different from ``author''.
Status: waiting
- SMOOTH
- Optimize for speed. Fix bug in pre-smoothing in case of circular beams.
Status: waiting
- GETGSCP
- New program. Obtain information from the Guide Star Catalog.
Status: waiting
- GTAR
- Archiving of GDS-sets in `tar' format.
Status: testing
- fie (subroutine)
- Implement descriptor functions for use in tasks COMBIN, CREATE and
EDITSET.
Status: waiting
- task library
- Separate `kernel tasks' and unsupported tasks in order to allow users
to contribute tasks more easily.
Status: waiting
Items with no assigned priority
- TAU
- Migrate VMS version to Unix
- 3-D window
- New program.
Revised: 16 Aug, 1999