[Kstars-devel] Who uses the batch calculator?

[Aleksey Khudyakov]

On 16.12.2013 03:55, Henry de Valence wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to replace all uses of the SkyPoint code using the vector-based
> code written for my GSOC project[^1]. One use is the batch mode for
> astrocalculations. I see no reason why the batch mode should be part of KStars
> proper, rather than as a small standalone commandline executable with a man
> page.
>
> However, there's no documentation of how the batch calculator is actually
> supposed to work. Google turns up this helpful link [0]. If anyone here uses
> the batch calculator, please send a few example files so I can write a
> standalone executable, as it seems that the existing code is undocumented and
> possibly broken. Otherwise I'll just remove it.
>
Few years ago I tried to figure out how is it intended to work from 
source code. I failed. It's a convoluted mess.

On related note there's feature request to make calculator a separate 
executable[1].

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122329