CasacoreVsAips

1. summary Differences between aips++ to casacore

Introduction

• casacore* is the set of core libraries taken from *aips++*. However, a few things have been modified.

 * *casacore* uses auto-templating and is not using the {{{__ReposFiller}}}

 * *casacore* uses .tcc files for fully templated source files. These are also installed into the include location.

 * The libraries are named {{{libcasa_<pkg>}}} instead of {{{lib<pkg>}}} to avoid possible clashes with other software packages.

 * _aipsinit/AIPSPATH_ are no longer used. This needs to be tidied up for things which require it (e.g. measures). For now the _AIPSPATH_ has to be set by hand, but only the path (first argument) is relevant to find the data directory.

 * *casacore* uses an extended way of finding aipsrc vaiables (see CasaAipsRC). The old *aips++* way is still supported

 * *aips++* {{{VersionInfo}}} is no longer used. In the few places where it was used, _casacore trunk_ is hardcoded. Probably just use $Revision there.

 * *mirlib* is now a package itself (maybe remove completely)