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.
Cheers,
Peter.
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