Astro-App-Satpass2 is Copyright (C) 2009-2023 by Thomas R. Wyant, III This package contains an application to predict satellite visibility, using the Astro::Coord::ECI classes. The following classes are included: Astro::App::Satpass2 - The application class; Astro::App::Satpass2::ParseTime - Base class for time parsing; Astro::App::Satpass2::ParseTime::ISO8601 - Standalone ISO-8601-ish time parser; Astro::App::Satpass2::ParseTime::Date::Manip - Date::Manip parser base; Astro::App::Satpass2::ParseTime::Date::Manip::v5 - Date::Manip v5 parser; Astro::App::Satpass2::ParseTime::Date::Manip::v6 - Date::Manip v6 parser; Astro::App::Satpass2::Copier - Base class for the helper classes; Astro::App::Satpass2::Format - Base class for the output formatters; Astro::App::Satpass2::Format::Dump - Output dumper (for debugging); Astro::App::Satpass2::FormatTime - Base class for formatting times; Astro::App::Satpass2::FormatTime::Cldr - Manifest constants for cldr formatting; Astro::App::Satpass2::FormatTime::DateTime - DateTime common code; Astro::App::Satpass2::FormatTime::DateTime::Cldr - DateTime cldr formatting; Astro::App::Satpass2::FormatTime::DateTime::Strftime - DateTime strftime fmtg; Astro::App::Satpass2::FormatTime::POSIX::Strftime - POSIX strftime fmtg; Astro::App::Satpass2::FormatTime::Strftime - Manifest const for strftime fmtg; Astro::App::Satpass2::Utils - Utility functions needed by other modules; Astro::App::Satpass2::Warner - Manage how warnings are formatted. In addition, a 'satpass2' script is included, which simply uses Astro::App::Satpass2 and passes @ARGV to its run() method. There is also an Astro::App::Satpass2::TUTORIAL to help get started. There were several motivations for this package: * There was no good way to test the 'satpass' script that was included in the Astro-satpass package. Restructuring it as an object made testing easier; in fact, several bugs were found in 'satpass' while writing this module. * Making a break with the old 'satpass' script gave the opportunity to rethink a couple implementation decisions in the light of experience, and drop obsolete functionality such as the SIMBAD 3 interface and the associated setting to determine which SIMBAD interface to use. This means that 'satpass2' is not quite command-compatable with 'satpass'. The Astro::App::Satpass2 documentation describes the differences. * The output formatting of the 'satpass' script is not very flexable. * The dependencies of the 'satpass' script are significantly different than those of the Astro::Coord::ECI classes. Separating the two (with eventual abandonment of the Astro-satpass package in favor of an Astro-Coord-ECI package without the 'satpass' script) means that people only interested in the Astro::Coord::ECI classes will not have to drag along the dependencies of the script. INSTALLATION Most Perl users will want to install using their favorite of either 'cpan' or 'cpanp'. For either of these, installing Astro::App::Satpass2 gets you everything. ActivePerl users will want to use ActiveState's 'ppi', and install Astro-App-Satpass2. If for some reason none of these works for you, you can download the distribution and expand it using something like tar -xzf Astro-App-Satpass2-9.999.tar.gz Users of MSWin32 (and perhaps other operating systems) may need to convert the line endings in the expanded files from Unix to their native system before proceeding. Then, issue one of the following two incantations: perl Makefile.PL make make test sudo make install or perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test sudo ./Build install You should substitute the appropriate program name for 'make', eg nmake (typically) under MSWin32, or mms or mmk under VMS. See ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe for a copy of nmake for MSWin32 if you need it. Unix users may want to use 'su' rather than 'sudo' for the install. Non-unix users may need to be logged in to an administrative or otherwise privileged accout, and turn on privileges (if applicable) for the install. Of course, since it's pure Perl, you can just expand the kit and drop the .pm files into the App directory (creating it if necessary) in the appropriate place in your @INC directories. LICENSING INFORMATION This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the full text of the licenses in the directory LICENSES. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.