On 6/26/06, Karl Glazebrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I often look amazed at how inefficiently some people try to do things in packages like IRAF (which only those in astro will understand the reference).
IRAF has moved to Python (pyraf), as has AIPS++ (casapy). In a few years, python will probably be the standard interface language for astronomical data reduction... at least, for those people who don't use IDL. As much as I like PDL, it's capabilities and completeness are lacking in some areas compared to Python - notably, the graphical plotting library used in casapy, which is very impressive.
That said I WOULD like to see wider adoption rather than feel like some archmage. A linux binary distro would help a lot.
I'm not convinced that a special-purpose linux distro would be useful for most potential users. It's better to have a good binary .rpm or similar package. A lot of people probably don't want to build from source, and a custom distro is only useful to people who want a computer dedicated to running PDL. -- David Whysong _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
