Re: Mars model ; uranus model
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just refers the user straight over to . I thought this was better than having two independent copies of the site on the web.
Nice, that's a solid solution and will hopefully prevent some confused users. (Though, alas, it looks like the #1 Google search result for "XEphem" is? which is not yet a redirect. I don't have any quick recommendation to make because I'm not sure of the historical difference between index.html and xephem.html there.)
But now I wonder about catalogs. Are they on github somewhere, including the two large GSC kits? Maybe I'm just missing them but if not, folks will still need access to at least that much of my old web site. If catalogs are not yet on github but you want them to be, I would suggest breaking out the smaller ones from my XEphem-3.7.7-disk1.tgz rather than just posting that file as-is.
Oh ¡ª the catalogs! Thanks for thinking of that. I have created a new repository for them, so that all those huge binaries don't affect folks who just want to download and work on the main source code:
I've added: - The big GSC2201?star catalog from the supplementary install CDs XEphem-3.7-disk2.tgz and XEphem-3.7-disk3.tgz.
- All the catalogs from the official install CD?XEphem-3.7.7-disk1.tgz.
- Execpt?for the "gsc/*" directory, because it's not only heavy megabyte-wise but because it contains so many individual files that version control slows to a crawl. Hopefully it's redundant and folks can use the big star catalog instead? If not, then maybe we could commit a .tar.gz of it to version control and at least avoid the number-of-files problem. Let me know which course would be best.
- I welcome any guidance on what to do with big directories like "xephem/lo/img/" and "xephem/gallery/" which are not catalogs, but are indeed binary resources. Would a third repository be appropriate? I'd welcome guidance here.
I suppose at some point there will need to be documentation telling folks how to get those resources and install them locally. Let me know if anyone is interested in writing something up!
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