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+# Purpose #
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+This repository contains tools and utilities for [Trotsk nu-mass](http://www.inr.ru/~trdat/) experiment.
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+# Set-up #
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+This project build using [DataForge](http://www.inr.ru/~nozik/dataforge/) framework. Currently in order to compile numass tools, one need to download dataforge gradle project [here](https://bitbucket.org/Altavir/dataforge). If both projects (numass and dataforge) are in the same directory, everything will work out of the box, otherwise, one needs to edit `gradle.properties` file in the root of numass project and set `dataforgePath` to the relative path of dataforge directory. 
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+It is intended to fix this problem with public maven repository later.
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