Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah choked on new project "nk-optics"

[Sylvain Beucler]

I removed the pending submission.

Here is the text of the submission:
nk-optics is a program which computes optical properties of multilayer
thin-film coatings.  Dielectric, metallic, and granular films are
supported.  The nk-optics package includes a SCM script (program)
named "nk" to create, manage, and query a refractive-index spectra
database.  Included is a validation test suite comparing nk-optics
runs with simulations from other sources.
nk-optics is an application of the SCM Scheme implementation and the
WB B-tree database package.  nk-optics home page is
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/nk-optics/.
The package is available from
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/users/jaffer/nk-optics.zip

Although nk-optics can be used without Sopra data, it is useful.
 
The nk program can read Sopra format files. These files have a ".nk" suffix. 
Some metal spectra includ ed with nk-optics also have a ".nk" suffix, but with 
a different format. A bundle of spectra for 278 m aterials is available from: 
http://www.sopra-sa.com/more/database.asp (Nov 28, 2000).
 
The zip file http://www.sspectra.com/files/misc/win/SOPRA.EXE
(Macintosh http://www.sspectra.com/files/misc/mac/Sopra.sea.hqx)
contains "README.TXT" identifying the Sopra files.

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Sylvain

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 04:52:53PM -0400, Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
> I tried to create a new project named "nk-optics" on savannah last
> week.  All went well until the license page.  When I opened another
> window to https://savannah.gnu.org/my/, the project-creation window
> put up an error message and was hosed from there on.
> 
> I have received no email about nk-optics, but when I try to create
> that project again, savannah says:
> 
>   Warning: savane was not able to read "forbidden_group_names"
>   site-specific information, please contact administrators [#1];
>   Project name taken [#2];
> 
>   A project with that name already exists.
> 
> Can nk-optics be unwedged?
> 
> Another possibility would be to call it FreeSnell, which puns 3 ways,
> two of them actually implemented in my program:
> 
>     Free        Software
>     Fre snel's  Equations
>         Snell's law
>     =========
>     FreeSnell
> 
> 
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Sylvain