Merge pull request #960 in CASA/casa from bugfix/CAS-12440 to master
* commit '3e8d44e6b4f7fe22c08a01ac96f9bdc441b108e4': CAS-12440 add near() checks to overlap tests
Merge pull request #958 in CASA/casa from CAS-7210 to master
* commit '42490953a5f012688d3d679f0954985d8ac8a7d6': (25 commits)
removed briggsabs from parallel testing
removed a compiler warning
Fix tsdimaging tests failure due to expecting 0 area beams
documentation update
make torecord and fromrecord call the base class calls
Fix for moving source with briggs cube weighting
Adding tests for briggsabs and perchannelweightdensity
Fix an embarrasing if else goofup
Fix for one of the mysterious file existence issue in parallel tclean along with an oversight correction when pixel size is big enough to reject some uv data
add briggsabs in the doc list of options
Fix a x,y goofup that i carried across from CAS-11191
Added a new parameter perchanweightdensity to choose between using Cube Briggs weight density calculation or not
alteration after CAS-12352 fix
Define method getImagingWeightGenerator()
Added the Briggs Absolute formula for weighting...this extends the normalization formula, which with npixel can more aggressively weigh down the short spacing for ALMA.
Fix spectral frame transport to the weighting grid
Fix a shape bug due to padding and reordered loop for grid calculation for mosweight to save memory
removed a debugging bypass
some fixes and finishing touches
Fixes after prelim testing
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