On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:51 AM, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, David Berry wrote:
>>> > On 12/07/07, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> > > It's been pointed out to me that our cfitsio is "ancient" and
>>> we > > really
>>> > > should be using v3. Is there any objection to upgrading?
>>> > > > > If we are making a new release at the end of the month,
>>> should we wait > > to
>>> > > do the upgrade until after the release?
>>> > > Looking at the change log, there are a huge number of
>>> changes. So it
>>> > would probably be safer to leave updating cfitsio until after the
>>> > release.
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>
>> And the release has come and gone, so I'm now going to do this job.
>> There are a fair few packages that depend indirectly on CFITSIO,
>> mostly through their use of CAT, but hopefully this will be painless.
>
> Finished the update to CFITSIO version 3. To test this probably best
> to remove your existing thirdparty/heasarc/cfitsio directory
> completely, refresh from SVN and re-bootstrap, build & install.
>
> Clearly it would be useful if everyone could update this critical
> component as soon as possible.
>
>
Thanks. I've update JAC in Hilo. Await the screams...
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Tim Jenness
Joint Astronomy Centre
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