[Casa-framework] casaviewer

[David King]

ok, 'casaviewer' it is...  I have updated my local trees.

Joe says python-internal tools/tasks for this might be able to have a 
shorter name in the future, but the standalone program will be called 
'casaviewer'.

dk


Darrell Schiebel wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> You can blame me for this. With the RPMs I only export which executables 
> we really want people to use. Currently that includes casapy (casa 
> python), casaviewer (qtviewer), and casalogger. This has some advantages 
> (1) it avoids conflict with other packages and (2) it keeps all our 
> "products" in the users mind as a group. The viewer is one of our more 
> successful efforts, and I think it adds value to the casa package. As a 
> result, we should make sure that people know it's part of our package.
> 
> I suppose there are other options, e.g. "casaview", "casavr". Joe made 
> the decision, but I argued that we should tie all of our deliverables 
> together with "casa*".
> 
> Darrell
> 
> On Oct 27, 2006, at 5:04 PM, David King wrote:
> 
>> Why not just 'viewer' (or 'vwr',...)?
>>
>> Short names are better; other tools have them.
>>
>> dk
>>
>> Wes Young wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>> We made an executive decision, the qtviewer is now the casaviewer.  
>>> I've updated the subversion branches/active to reflect this. The code 
>>> didn't change just its name.
>>> wes
>>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu