On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Tim Jenness wrote:
> LSST are actively exploring whether to use the AST library for WCS. Whilst
> no decision has yet been made one concrete issue is that the AST source
> code is embedded within a huge git repository consisting of millions of
> lines of other stuff. If LSST do use AST they will intend to actively add
> new mappings required to handle the WCS issues found in the LSST camera
> (such as tree rings and brighter/fatter). It is unreasonable to expect LSST
> developers to fork the whole of Starlink to add a new mapping so I would
> like to propose that I pull libraries/ast out of the Starlink repo and
> replace it with a submodule in libext/ast as is currently done for pal. I
> have spoken to David about this and he has no objections. Does anyone
> object?
sounds very sensible.
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Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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