Hi everyone, I thought you might be interested to know that Scikit-image 0.9.3 is now included in Ureka, our distribution of Python and IRAF software for astronomy, which has just come out of beta today. Ureka is rather astronomy-orientated (including some "legacy" stuff) so won't be everyone's installation method of choice, but the rest of you might at least like to know where your work is ending up :-). While I'm at it, you might be interested to keep an eye on AstroPy (http://www.astropy.org/), which has been developing rapidly and recently came out with a v0.3 release; it certainly has some room for overlap with Scikit-image. Cheers, James. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AstroPy] Ureka 1.0 is now available Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:13:33 +0000 From: Christine Slocum <cslocum@stsci.edu> To: AstroPy@scipy.org <AstroPy@scipy.org> STScI and Gemini are announcing the release of Ureka 1.0. Improvements (with respect to beta 6): - test for completeness of OS library dependencies - many installation improvements - expanded documentation - support for Ubuntu 13.10, Fedora 19, and OS X Mavericks (10.9) - menu shortcuts on Linux - optional support for MySQL and PostgreSQL - bundled Fortran run-time library is always used to avoid conflict with OS version(s) Updated packages: - Gemini IRAF 1.12 - virtualenv (1.10.1) - SciPy (0.13.0) - wheel (0.22.0) - scikit-image (0.9.3) - Pillow (2.2.1) - CFITSIO (3350) - scikit-learn (0.14.1) - Tornado (3.1.1) - setuptools (1.3) - NumPy (1.8.0) - stsci.distutils (0.3.2) - astropy (0.3) - d2to1 (0.2.11) - PyParsing (2.0.1) New packages: - PyKE (2.4.0) - Six (1.4.1) - PyTZ (2013.8) - kapteyn (2.2.1b17) - BeautifulSoup (3.2.1) - mechanize (0.2.5) - jsonschema (2.1.0) - numexpr (2.2.2) - Dateutil (2.2) - mock (1.0.1) Ureka is a binary packaging installer for common astronomical software (primarily for the UV/Optical/IR community). The goals of the Ureka installer are to: 1) minimize the number of actions needed to install all the different software components. We are seeking a "one button install" (it's not quite one button, but not far from it). 2) permit installation without requiring system privileges. 3) make installs as problem-free as possible for the great majority of users. 4) allow users to install their own software (particularly Python-based) within this framework, or update versions of software within the framework. 5) permit different Ureka installations to coexist and to easily switch between them. 6) enable installing different versions of the same software package under a particular Ureka installation. 7) support Macs and most popular Linux variants. Ureka does not use LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or its Mac equivalent), nor require PYTHONPATH, minimizing the possibility of affecting existing software after installation or use. Should conflicts nevertheless arise, Ureka can easily be disabled temporarily or enabled only in specific terminal windows. Keep in mind that no installation system is completely foolproof (that's very nearly impossible to achieve). In particular, when users update or add software to the Ureka framework, they increase the risk of breaking something, but we feel that is an option that users should have as long as they understand the possible risks. This release includes IRAF 2.16 and associated packages for IRAF, DS9, and a fairly full suite of Python scientific software packages (e.g., numpy, scipy, and matplotlib). The full listing of included software can be found at this link: http://ssb.stsci.edu/ureka/1.0/docs/components.html Ureka can be downloaded from: http://ssb.stsci.edu/ureka/ (choose "1.0"). Installation and usage instructions can be found on the same web page. Please send questions or feedback to help@stsci.edu. _______________________________________________ AstroPy mailing list AstroPy@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/astropy