Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:06:27 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: charon@freethought.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRAF Message-ID: <19990208090627.D38029@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990207223125.00a27550@mail>; from charon@freethought.org on Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:31:25PM -0800 References: <3.0.5.32.19990207223125.00a27550@mail>
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On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:31:25PM -0800, charon@freethought.org wrote: > Might I suggest that someone look into porting IRAF (an astronomy utility > for image analysis, etc.) to FreeBSD? The IRAF website > <http://iraf.noao.edu>; has a FreeBSD version of the program, but it's not > in the ports collection. Sorry, I would try to make the port myself if I > had half a clue what I was doing! Maybe I'll get around to it in a few > years ;) I have looked into this. It appears fairly non-trivial, and my impression from their documentation is that the installation will vary more from site to site than it does for most software. I did notice that NOAO recommends using the binaries that they built, rather than building from source. On the one hand, I like to build everything, but on the other hand IRAF is... non-small in the extreme. I'm not sure which way to go. Anyway, I don't have time to pursue the issue these days. Perhaps somebody else does. I think it would be pretty hard to do the port without already knowing IRAF, which severely reduces the number of available candidates. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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