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Nanite - a friendly swarm of format-identifying robots.
openplanets.github.io/nanite/
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Nanite, is not a tiny DROID or a wrapper #1

Closed davetaz closed 12 years ago

davetaz commented 12 years ago

If I understand this correctly, Nanite is a shim that presents a standard API for a number of file format identification tools.

It doesn't wrap the other tools (that would be FITS)

The use of DROID in the name also seems to purely be a marketing move.

anjackson commented 12 years ago

Nanite started off as a reimplementation of the core DROID identification logic, but done in such a way as to make command line, embedding, signature testing and map-reduce usage easier. However, that was problematic, and so that code has been shifted into the nanite-droid sub-package. I've now moved to using this codebase to compare identification tools at scale, and neglected to update the documentation appropriately. I'll fix it.

anjackson commented 12 years ago

Okay, I've updated the tagline and the documentation. I hope that's clearer now.