[fedora-astronomy] Another try at IRAF?

[Sergio Pascual]

Hello,

when you finish the package I'm willing to review it (unless you need a
mentor :)

Regards, Sergio


2013/3/6 Joseph Wang <joequant at gmail.com>

> 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 <joequant at gmail.com> 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.
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