Tim, hello.
On 2012 Feb 9, at 18:55, Tim Jenness wrote:
>> It sounds as if it would be a Service To The Community for someone to spend a little time wrapping up the SOFA and/or NOVAS routines in some more conventional format (that is, supporting ./configure;make, and possibly hosted on bitbucket or github).
>
> You mean something a bit like:
>
> http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/git/?p=sofa.git;a=summary
Dummm, yes, something like that. I've now found <http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/git/> and can see the projects, so have a clearer idea how this is now organised. (I'm sure I've been pointed at this before)
Separately:
>> These should be in thirdparty/fsf, but looking at that part of the tree in the browser <http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/git/?p=starlink.git;a=tree;f=thirdparty/fsf>, it appears that the autoconf, automake, libtool and m4 directories are mode 'm---------'. Wassat?: I don't know if that's a curiosity of git or of the web service.
>
> I assume it means that they are submodules and you are looking at the
> wrong place. When we switched to git I pulled the thirdparty stuff
> into separate submodules so that it would make it easier for you us
> all. It should also be easier for you to extract out your patches for
> submission to the FSF as you can attach the actual FSF git
> repositories as remotes.
Ooo-K, it's back on the magic list. I'll aim not to let it fall off again, as long as I get to moan and whine about blasted git (and get some pointers about it) here.
See you,
Norman
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Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk
SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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