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diff --git a/sci-astronomy/esorex/metadata.xml b/sci-astronomy/esorex/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d65df3197 --- /dev/null +++ b/sci-astronomy/esorex/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> +<herd>sci</herd> +<longdescription lang="en"> +EsoRex is the ESO Recipe Execution Tool. It can list, configure and +execute CPL-based recipes from the command line. One of the features +provided by the CPL is the ability to create data-reduction algorithms +that run as plugins (dynamic libraries). These are called recipes and +are one of the main aspects of the CPL data-reduction development +environment. As these recipes are dynamic libraries, it is not +possible to run them directly from the command line. However, ESO +provides several tools to do this, thus saving recipe developers the +need to write such an application themselves. One of these is GASGANO +(a GUI-based tool) and the other is EsoRex (which runs from the +command line. +</longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |