[Mageia-dev] Another try at IRAF?

Wed Mar 6 01:33:18 CET 2013

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.
+