On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Clive Davenhall wrote:
> CHART! Aaarrgh!! Some programs will just never die.
:-)
PS FINDCOORDS is dead as well since the cursa.cfg file has disappeared
from the web and there is no fallback version in the distribution.
>
> However. There was a Unix version of CHART which worked, and which
> could access versions of the catalogues that it needed. These Unix
> versions were presumably created when CHART was ported. AFAIK they're
> included in the CHART distribution. Note, however, that the catalogues
> are obsolete (in an astronomical, rather than a computing sense).
I can well imagine. I couldn't find the catalogues in the distribution
though. [at least not by an obvious name] and the makefile didn't install
the catalogues itself. All a bit odd.
Clearly if no-one has a copy of the catalogue then this is a dead end.
> I enclose some notes on using CHART (originally from Malcolm) as an
> attachment (they're on my Web pages, but the Web server here has been
> fiddled with and none of my pages are available at the moment). I was
> going to try them out, to see if CHART still worked, but it isn't
> installed here.
It was never ported to linux and it was never de-nagged so it died when
the CD distribution was made back in 1997. The fact that it took 30
minutes for me to "port" it to linux and de-nag it indicates that no-one
cared about the software back in 1997. All the heavy porting was in 1993
when it was ported to unix.
>
> I'm not sure if this helps.
>
> CHART is long past its sell-by date. I think that it is time to finally
> put a stake through its heart.
>
That's fine. With these obsolete packages my policy is to spend one
evening trying to get it working and then give up. It'll die on its own -
I just want it to die properly, because there are no users, not because we
lost the source code :-)
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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