On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, David Berry wrote:
>
> > > PS Does anyone know anything about PDL linux? Bizarrely
> > >
> > > http://buildlogs.pld-linux.org/index.php?idx=7&ok=1&ns=0&cnt=16&action=qa
> > >
> > > indicates that there are loads of starlink libraries in it. It seems to be
> > > Polish and a quick search on rpm.pbone.net shows you all the starlink
> > > RPMs. I haven't found which application they are building that requires
> > > these RPMs but it might be worth talking to the maintainer.
> >
> > Odd!
>
> Indeed, that is odd, but less spectacular than an quick glance might
> suggest. The libraries present seem to be those needed for the Perl FITS
> modules (cfitsio & NDF et al.).
>
Actually, I think that they are there because of PerlDL which has optional
support for GSD and NDF I/O. They've clearly wanted to fully spec perldl.
I'm very impressed. [I wander what licence they are using for the starlink
modules....]
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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