Hello, great news! Right now i use iraf using my own rpms, which are quite dirty (i just repackaged the binaries and I'm new to rpm packaging, available at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Acdersch%3AAstro ). I just started the work at a Fedora based spin for astronomy purposes to get an easy usable system for my astronomy group. Maybe it is possible to create an official spin when the packages are ready. In my experience it is a quite big problem to get a clean working system with IRAF etc. for many people new to linux. Of course I'm able to test your packages and i will participate in fedora-astronomy when possible.
Best Regards, Christian Dersch 2013/3/6 Sergio Pascual <[email protected]> > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora astronomy mailing list > [email protected] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/astronomy >
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