The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is a joint project between astronomical organizations in Europe and North America. ALMA will consist of at least 54 12-meter antennas operating in the millimeter and sub-millimeter range, with baselines up to 14 km. It will be located at an altitude above 5000m in the Chilean Atacama desert. The ALMA Common Software (ACS) provides a software infrastructure common to all partners and consists of a documented collection of common patterns and of components that implement those patterns. The heart of ACS is an object model based on Distributed Objects (DOs), implemented as CORBA objects. The teams responsible for the control system development use DOs as the basis for components and devices such as an antenna mount control. ACS provides common CORBA-based services such as logging, error and alarm management, configuration database and lifecycle management. A code generator creates a Java Bean for each DO. Programmers can write Java client applications by connecting those Beans with data-manipulation and visualization Beans. ACS is based on the experience gained in the astronomical and particle accelerator domains, and reuses and extends proven concepts and components. Although designed for ALMA, ACS can be used in other new control systems, since it implements proven design patterns using state of the art, stable and reliable technology. Here is the first ebuild of the binary distribution of ACS for Gentoo Linux X86.
Created attachment 108950 [details] the portage file with the ebuild untar it an emerge it: tar jxvf ACS-bin-gentoo.tar.bz2 -C / emerge ACS-bin
Please don't attach tarballs... http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap2
Created attachment 108981 [details] the new ebuild The proposed ebuild.
Noone will notice again if you don't reopen...
ACS is now two major versions ahead of this ebuild. Is there still any user demand?
In light of lack of comments for 4 months now, I assume there is indeed no user demand for this package. Closing the bug.
