On 07/04/2014 03:25 PM, Sylwester Arabas wrote:
- how to make these packages usable for IDL / PV-WAVE users?Since IDL is non-free, I would consider this not as a primary goal. I would concentrate on GDL.
I wonder what Sywester means by "making useable"...
Those are tons of IDL script files. I doubt we can tell if a particular script will fail or not, since it depends on how it is used and the history. I mean, a script that makes nice plots may pass for double precision data, and fail on integer data, a tool using the cursor may crash only when the user clicks where nobodoy ever would have thought clicking possible, etc...- should idlastro be splitted into multiple subpackages?I would split it, if the different parts are somehow usable independently. Also, not all packages may be usable under GDL (yet), right?
Another point is that this idlastro --- which by the way, is the same as "astrolib", no? is a bunch of not-so-well-if-any maintained files, do we want to "support" (read: inherit the problems of) them?My suggestion: we make a small installer-like script that will start at the first use of GDL, that ask for downloading idlastro+coyotelib+mpfit directly from their respective sites (see http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/). May be do the same for gsshsg data, as well. No need of handling that at debian level.
best Gilles
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