[AstroPy] Ubuntu packages and state of AstroLib

[Erik Tollerud]

I just tested in in an ubuntu virtualenv, and it seems to work.  I was
forced to also install pyfits, apparently because the pywcs setup
script uses just distutils instead of distutils+distribute (or
distutils+setuptools).  That's not a serious problem, though, as it's
trivial to install with PIP if someone needs it.

Thanks for posting it!

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Michael Droettboom <mdroe at stsci.edu> wrote:
> I've uploaded a 1.10 source release to PyPI.  Please let me know how it works, as I've never really used easy_install/pip.
>
> Mike
>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:16 PM
> To: Michael Droettboom; astropy at scipy.org
> Subject: Re: [AstroPy] Ubuntu packages and state of AstroLib
>
> So are there still no plans to upload pywcs to PyPI?
>
> I can understand not wanting to deal with building binaries, but if a
> source distribution can be uploaded, then the "pip" tool (which is the
> now-standard tool given that easy_install is not being developed nor
> is it py3k compatible) can properly install from source as long as the
> user has wcslib installed.  This makes it much easier to treat pywcs
> as a dependency for other packages.
>
> As far as I can tell this should be as easy as adding "
> 'requires':['numpy','pyfits'],'provides':['pywcs']" to the setupargs
> in defsetup.py and running "python sdist upload". Presumably numpy is
> still needed to build, but as long as numpy is installed, I think that
> should make it so that other packages can make pywcs a dependency.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Michael Droettboom <mdroe at stsci.edu> wrote:
>> I have made a pywcs-1.10-4.7 release, available here:
>>
>> http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/pywcs-1.10-4.7.tar.gz
>>
>> and tagged in SVN here:
>>
>> http://svn6.assembla.com/svn/astrolib/tags/pywcs_1.10/
>>
>> That should remove the need for the crazy wcsset_ patching, and also provide some basic unit tests for running with nose.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: astropy-bounces at scipy.org [astropy-bounces at scipy.org] on behalf of Ole Streicher [astropy at liska.ath.cx]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:37 AM
>> Cc: astropy at scipy.org
>> Subject: Re: [AstroPy] Ubuntu packages and state of AstroLib
>>
>> Am 17.03.2011 15:43, schrieb Michael Droettboom:
>>> Also in SVN, I've documented how to run the tests.  As you point out
>>> will not work with the latest 1.9 release, but assuming SVN head
>>> works for you for your packaging purposes, I'm happy to make a new
>>> 1.10 release.
>>
>> I successfully tested the package build process against the SVN trunk,
>> so a new version would be fine for me.
>>
>> Additionally to Sergio's patch, I will also remove all references to the
>> test fits files and the wcslib includes in the defsetup.py, since they
>> are not needed for the binary package. This makes the package smaller
>> without the need to remove the tests from the source tarball.
>>
>> Would you just tag the version in SVN or also provide a downloadable tar
>> file at stsci?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Ole
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