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# MERCURY PYTHON WRAP
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# Copyright (C) 2012 Jorge I. Zuluaga
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301, USA.

This program redistribute the advanced Mercury integrator written by
Chambers in 1999 and published in:

   Chambers, J.E. "A Hybrid Symplectic Integrator that Permits Close
   Encounters between Massive Bodies". Monthly Notices of the Royal
   Astronomical Society, vol 304, pp793-799.

It also redistributes the header files and binary libraries of the
SPICE Naif utilities distributed officially by NASA at:

   http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/aboutspice.html

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Quick start
===========

1. Get a copy of MercuPy from https://github.com/facom/MercuPy:

   NOTE: You can get an anonymous clone of the project using:

      git clone git://github.com/facom/MercuPy.git

   Then you will be able to get updates using 'git pull'.

2. Compile utilities:

      make utilbuild

3. Copy an example and prepare a run:

      cp -rf examples/*.config .
      make prepare

4. Launch the run:

      make go

To know more read the doc/MANUAL.txt.

For the contirbutor
===================

1. Generate a public key of your account at the server where you will
   develop contributions:

   $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "user@email"

2. Upload public key to the github project site
   (https://github.com/facom/MercuPy).  You will need access to the
   account where the repository was created.

3. Configure git:

   $ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
   $ git config --global user.email "your@email"

4. Get an authorized clone of the master trunk:

   $ git clone [email protected]:facom/MercuPy.git