Hello, when you finish the package I'm willing to review it (unless you need a mentor :)
Regards, Sergio 2013/3/6 Joseph Wang <[email protected]> > Just an update. I've been told on astrobetter that a lot of work has > been done in > making IRAF easier to build from source in 2.16, and I've found that this > is the > case. Right now I've gotten the bootstrap compiler working. There is > one sub-library > (libVO) that is not working, but I think i can get that working within a > week. > > Once we have IRAF in, I'll look at PyRaf. Once that is in this means that > the > big three professional astronomy packages will be available via standard > RPM (ds9, midas, iraf). > > One thing about the astronomy community is that it's been moving heavily > toward > Macintosh, and I'm hoping that by making RPM's available with on the > standard > distributions, linux is going to be able to stay competitive. It's > also important to > make the packages standard parts of a linux distribution because making > them > add-ons means that they don't use the build test infrastructure of the > distribution > as well as the non-astronomy human infrastructure. > > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Joseph Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone game for trying to package IRAF (again)? > > > > With 2.16 all of the licensing issues have been fixed. The build > > system is ancient but with github we might be able to hack away on > > that. > _______________________________________________ > Fedora astronomy mailing list > [email protected] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/astronomy >
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