[AstroPy] Including kcorrect as a astropy affiliated package?

[Adrian Price-Whelan]

Taro --

We should just email Mike and ask what level of credit he would expect (e.g. a line 
in the README, or some recognition on the github page?). But I certainly agree that
this is a great idea for an affiliated package!

- apw

On Jan 7, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Taro Sato wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Erik Tollerud <erik.tollerud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This sounds like a perfect candidate for an affiliated package - we
>> probably wouldn't want it in the core right away because it's a
>> somewhat specific tool (and we would want it to interact more tightly
>> with some of the in-the-work astropy packages), but I could easily see
>> it getting merged down the road.
>> 
>> I know the documentation is a bit confusing about what affiliated
>> packages are - that will be updated as soon as we've gotten all the
>> automatic documentation tools working... but in a nutshell affiliated
>> packages are wholly external packages (although we encourage you to
>> host them in the astropy github organization, if you're willing), but
>> there will be a registry of affiliated packages and a tool to easily
>> install them once astropy is installed.  They're also a good way to
>> get something eventually included in the astropy core that isn't quite
>> "done cooking" yet.
>> 
>> And just so I understand, the package you've written does nothing with
>> the IDL layer of kcorrect, right?  It interfaces directly with the
>> C-level kcorrect? (I ask because I wrote a function
>> astropysics.phot.kcorrect that just wraps the IDL functionality using
>> pidly, but that requires that IDL already be installed, so this would
>> be much better)
> 
> 
> 
> Oh, you've written a wrapper already...  how come I didn't know that!
> 
> Right, IDL isn't necessary at all to run the Python version, and
> that's the reason for working on the port.  The original kcorrect
> isn't a very thin wrapper around its C library, so in order to have
> the full functionality that the IDL version currently has, all the
> .pro scripts still need to be translated (I've only done what I have
> needed for myself so far).  But that isn't so bad. (it's just that IDL
> codes are not very fun to read.............)
> 
> I browsed through the astropy website and the affiliate thing, hence
> my inquiry.  So I'd happy to contribute the whole thing, according to
> whatever suggestion that astropy community makes.  I'm looking for a
> repository anyways.... it's about 185 MB right now, most auxiliary
> data included.
> 
> One thing I'd like to make sure, since a lot of effort must have been
> put into collecting all the auxiliary data (like throughput curves,
> templates, etc.) by Michael and his colleagues, is that if we end up
> distributing those things along with the Python package, there needs
> to be a way to ensure that the credit for the library goes to him
> (which according to the kcorrect website is to cite Blanton et al.
> 2007 paper).
> 
> So before going ahead with the transition, I'd like to make sure that
> sort of thing can be worked out well with everyone affected.
> 
> Cheers,
> Taro
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Adrian Price-Whelan
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