[WP3] [Fwd: HTM port survey]

[Kor G. Begeman]

L.S.

The mail below was sent to me by George Fekete and I forward this to you 
since it is important for the astro-wise software. The current version 
we are using is somewhat buggy and we need a new (C++) version 
desperately. So please all of you mail George (gyuri at skysrv.pha.jhu.edu) 
that you are interested in a C++ version.

Thanks,


Kor Begeman

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: HTM port survey
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:51:27 -0400
From: gyuri at skysrv.pha.jhu.edu
To: k.w.smith at qub.ac.uk, kgb at astro.rug.nl, svetlana at fnal.gov, 
yanni at fnal.gov,        crockosi at ucolick.org, gtr at physics.drexel.edu, 
rhl at astro.princeton.edu,        womullan at sciops.esa.int, 
eglez at ast.cam.ac.uk, eanderson at trendmls.com,        gillies at stsci.edu, 
ccz at bao.ac.cn
CC: thakar at pha.jhu.edu

Hello, All:

If you ever used the Hierarchical Triangular Mesh

     http://skyserver.org/HTM/

stuff now or before, you may have noticed that the current (and best!)
version implemented in C# is not functionally equivalent to the legacy
Java or C++ code base. I would like to get a feel for how everyone
feels about the need of a fresh port to C++ or Java. I am afraid I
don't have everyone's e-mail who uses HTM, so if you know of such not
on this list, please forward this note to them.

Please let me know how you feel, or if you don't want me to bother you
with this topic in the future. One line will do eg: "Yes, I want to see
C++ and MySQL support too" or "I don't know, and I don't care" or
anything else.

Many thanks and cheers,
George

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