LSST Toolsets

from: LSST Software Tools.

LSST is using a number of tools, both as components of our code, and to support our build system

See also DM/ThirdPartySoftware: a record of third party packages used by data management.

Software Engineering

Software Toolkits

  • STL: the C++ Standard Template Library. You may use anything from here.
  • Boost: the Boost C++ libraries. Selected libraries only; LsstBoost lists those acceptable.
  •  Eigen: matrix algebra package (see MatrixMath for alternatives considered).
  • FFTW: C++ FFT Library.
  • GSL: C++ GNU Scientific Library.
  • numpy: python numeric package.

Utilities

  • Doxygen: generates documentation from source code comments.
  • Eups: manages multiple versions of installed packages and their dependencies.
  • SCons:builds software.
  • Swig: a python/C++ interface generator (see python_C for alternatives considered).
  • Subversion: a version control system.
  • gcov, ggcov, tggcov C++ Coverage Analysis Tools.
  •  Parasoft C++Test : C++ Coding Standards Checker -- under LSST integration.

Database

Possible Packages

  • HyperAtlas: Facilitates sphere-to-plane mapping of large federations of imaging data. Allows for mosaicking of large grid-based datasets.
  • Object-Relational Mapping: packages for mapping between C/C++ objects and tables in an RDBMS.