[Info-gama] GNU gama 2.03 released

[Ales Cepek]

GNU gama 2.03 has been released.  It is available from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gama/ and mirrors of that site (see list of
mirror sites at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html). You can use
the following link http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gama/ which automatically
redirects to a "nearby" mirror.

GNU Gama is a project dedicated to adjustment of geodetic networks.
Network adjustment in a local coordinate system and its functionality
is represented by the program `gama-local', which adjusts geodetic
(free) networks of observed distances, directions, angles, height
differences, 3D vectors and observed coordinates (coordinates with
given variance-covariance matrix).  Alpha version of global coordinate
network adjustment model is based on geocentric coordinate system
(adjustment model on ellipsoid). Its functionality is represented by
the program `gama-g3'.

Version 2.03

* Version 2.03 comes with a new XML input/output data attribute
  'extern'.  The attribute ‘extern’ is available for all observation
  types, including ‘<vector extern="...">’ and ‘<coordinates
  extern="...">’.  Its values have no impact on processing in
  ‘gama-local’, it only transferes the attribute values from XML input
  into the corresponing XML tags in the adjustment output.
  
  The attribude ‘extern="value"’ is provided to enable storing
  observations’ database keys from an external database system in
  ‘gama-local’ XML adjutement input and output.  If you do not have such
  an external application, you probably will not need this attribute.

* Selected gama-local tests were added to CMake build (by Kristian
  Evers).  This adds the ability to run unit tests for gama-local on
  CMake based builds. The setup is kept as simple as possible and kept
  within CMakeLists.txt files to avoid to much clutter in the test
  directories.

  cmake /path/to/repo 
  make 
  ctest

  For the full test suite run autoconf build make check.

* Some minor issues were fixed, including the update of a helper
  programme ('slovnikar') for building language translation versions. 


Visit the Gama home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/gama

Anonymous GIT access is available from

   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gama.git

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Cheers
Aleš Čepek