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diff --git a/sci-astronomy/esorex/metadata.xml b/sci-astronomy/esorex/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4a01f01fa0 --- /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-astronomy</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> |