OSCATS: Open-Source Computerized Adaptive Testing System
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OSCATS facilitates the development of computerized adaptive tests and
simulations of computerized adaptive tests.  It consists of a library
written in object-oriented C using the GObject framework, along with
bindings to Python, Perl, PHP, and Java.


Author
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OSCATS was developed by Michael J. Culbertson <culbert1@illinois.edu>.


Copyright
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OSCATS 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 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

OSCATS 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 in the COPYING file for more details.


Dependencies
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OSCATS depends on the following packages:

- GNU Scientific Library (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl)
- Glib 2, including GObject (http://www.gtk.org)
- pkg-config, optional (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/)
- PyGObject module, for Python bindings (http://www.pygtk.org)
- Perl Glib module, for Perl bindings (http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net)
- PHP-GTK extension, for PHP bindings (http://gtk.php.net)


Building
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The base C library can be built with:

  $ ./configure
  $ make
  $ make install

The default installation location is /usr/local.  Alternate locations can be
specified with the --prefix option to configure.  If you will be linking
against the OSCATS C library in a non-standard location, you may need to set
the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable for pkg-config. By default, none of
the language bindings are included; to build these, use the
--enable-*-bindings options.