Bug 1680: Automatic checkin of merge of branch MAC-20110418-1_0-release-branch (svn-17785 - svn-17856) in trunk

Bug 1678: Changed initialization procedure such that only the global controller fetches the time axes of all worker nodes, instead of all workers fetching the time axes of all workers. Also, ITRF coordinate computation now happens per direction for the center of the array, instead of per direction, per station. Further, modified SQL code in preparation of improved progress monitoring.

Accept strange station names (for RTCP tests)

Removed dependency on Blitz

Bug 1000: AntennaField moved back to APL/APLCommon so LCS/ApplCommon does not depend on blitz Arrays. LCS/ApplCommon
has a AntField class now that contains the logical that used to be in the AntennaField class. The 'new' AntennaField
class uses the AntField class to readin the information and presents it as a blitz-array.

Added synonyms msin.name and msout.name (for SAS/MAC)

Updated for new NDPPP parameters

Initialize depending on station type

Initialize arrays depending on station type

Use backtrace possibility

Optionally accept non-existinf AntennaField files

Bug 1491: Fix for bug reported by P. Serra, trying to flag on Stokes Q in a 2 polarization (XX,YY) set did not work.

Use I shapelet for undefined other shapelets