riclarsson
commented
3 years ago We can rename cat. I would like this to happen on your side though. I suspect it would be a good idea to somehow purge the existence of cat, since I don't remember subversion having good version control options for renaming. We can also remove either Perrin or Perrin_newformat. I think perhaps only the former should remain. There is still a lot missing from the parsing of these files, things no one ever got around to fixing (quantum number parsing). So the latter lacks a lot of tags, making it impossible to use with many new features in ARTS (and the former can also not do these things since it still lacks parsing).
I like the enforced policy of readmes.
@riclarsson: Could we rename arts-xml-data/spectroscopy/cat to artscat? (Or perhaps add this to some todo list to change the next time the catalog is updated.)
Also, more general question to all:
Could we introduce a policy that there should be a readme.txt file in at least the higher-level directories of arts-xml-data, with at least one sentence on what the contents are? (What triggered this is that I was again confused on the meaning of the cat versus the HITRAN directory.)
Suggested content for arts-xml-data/spectroscopy/readme.txt
Subdirectories contain:
Hitran: Original HITRAN catalog (FIXME date of download) PartitionSums: Partition function data (TIPS) Perrin: Perrin catalog (species-dependent broadening, but only up to 2.5 THz, legacy format) Perrin_newformat_speciessplit: Same as above in current arts format cat: ARTS line catalog, based on the HITRAN version above, with some adjustments. cia: Collision-induced absorption data nlte: Data for non-LTE calculations zeeman: Zeeman splitting data