Bug#532430: ITP: udunits -- Library for the programatic handling of units of physical quantities

[Alastair McKinstry]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alastair McKinstry mckins...@debian.org

* Package name: udunits
  Version : 2.1.7
  Upstream Author : UCAR
* URL : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: DaCDaC(C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)
  Description : Library for the programatic handling of units of physical 
quantities

 The UDUNITS package supports units of physical quantities (e.g., meters, 
seconds).
 Specifically, it supports conversion between string and binary representations 
 of units, arithmetic manipulation of units, and conversion of numeric values 
between
 compatible units. The package is written in the C programming language.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)



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Re: Bug#532430: ITP: udunits -- Library for the programatic handling of units of physical quantities

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Alastair McKinstry mckinstry at debian.org writes:
 * Package name: udunits
   Version : 2.1.7
   Upstream Author : UCAR
 * URL : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/
 * License : BSD

Yes please! I needed that once or twice for R packages that build on top of it,
and created local deb packages. I never pushed these further because I disliked
UCAR's you have go to click and register here before downloading pages.

Oh, and I see I even blogged about it:
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2004/09/04#udunits

Nice to see this in Debian, at last!

Cheers, Dirk




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