Re: Where does it FITS?

The obvious name is...

I would like to see a more generic name. The Astro part might lead people to think it's an astronomy specific thing which it is not. We are using the FITS format (among other formats like PDS) for planetary data products. FITS is, after all, just another data format. Maybe AnyData::Format::FITS?

Cheers

Harry

PS I'm sure you've looked around/are aware of it, but I'm going to mention it anyway: There are already perl modules available to parse FITS files, like the wrapper of the CFITSIO lib and the PDL FITS reader (See fits libraries).

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Re^2: Where does it FITS? by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 24, 2010 at 21:26 UTC
Isn't 'planetary' stuff astronomy related? Certainly the first area in CPAN I'd think of looking would be in Astro. Putting it in the AnyData name space implies using the AnyData interface which could work, but isn't a particularly good match. Indeed I have looked around. FITS is complicated enough that that it's not a wheel you'd want to reinvent for preference. However both the modules you allude to sit on top of the CFITSIO lib and I was looking for a pure Perl solution. Besides, I was a bit bothered by the CPAN test results for Astro::FITS::CFITSIO! True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re^3: Where does it FITS? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 25, 2010 at 04:40 UTC
Besides, I was a bit bothered by the CPAN test results for Astro::FITS::CFITSIO! Report summary is `PASS (5) FAIL (51) UNKNOWN (127)` but it should be `PASS (5) FAIL(0) UNKNOWN (178)`	[reply]