On Nov 28, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Mark Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, David Berry wrote:
>
>> On 23 November 2010 00:47, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> So did this get resolved? David mentioned to me that he looked into it and came up with a fix but I don't see any commits to the starjava repository in a month.
>>>
>>> It would be nice if the one and only user of JNIAST that is not an ex-Starlink person can use it properly again without having to do an exec.
>>
>> I sent a suggested fix to Mark - I'm waiting to hear from him if it
>> looks like a goer or not.
>
> David and Tim,
>
> message received, looks plausible, but I haven't had time to look into it
> thus far.
We could just commit the patch and see if it helps (an "agile" approach...).
> I'm rather busy until the end of the year, and my current
> funders (Microsoft, believe it or not) do not nominate JNIAST as a
> priority.
>
I can report that at ADASS there was a lot of love directed towards the absent Mark Taylor. Especially from the Microsoft guy presenting the world-wide telescope app. :-)
> As I said earlier to David, as well as some testing and integration
> work from me, in order for this fix to be usable, it will require
> Peter to do his usual round of JNIAST native library building
> for all the usual platforms. I know this isn't trivial, but I
> don't know how much effort it actually involves or whether Peter
> has leisure to devote to it. Peter, are you in a position to
> do the necessary builds on demand assuming the sources are
> all in place? If so, I'll try to get on this in January.
I've already been doing the Mac and Linux builds as required. I haven't been tracking cygwin or solaris though.
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Tim Jenness
Joint Astronomy Centre
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