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All,

Here is a tool that may or may not be useful for creating Java and Perl
wrappers for Starlink C code (pity there is no Fortran support).

http://www.swig.org/

Steve.

-----Original Message-----
From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Rankin, SE (Stephen)
Sent: 16 June 2004 09:11
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: AST usage

Tim,

>I wander what licence they are using for the starlink
>modules....

I downloaded one of the RPM files and it had GPL licence in the RPM
information.

Steve.



-----Original Message-----
From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim
Jenness
Sent: 16 June 2004 02:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: AST usage

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, David Berry wrote:
>
> > > PS Does anyone know anything about PDL linux? Bizarrely
> > >
> > >
http://buildlogs.pld-linux.org/index.php?idx=7&ok=1&ns=0&cnt=16&action=qa
> > >
> > > indicates that there are loads of starlink libraries in it. It seems
to be
> > > Polish and a quick search on rpm.pbone.net shows you all the starlink
> > > RPMs. I haven't found which application they are building that
requires
> > > these RPMs but it might be worth talking to the maintainer.
> >
> > Odd!
>
> Indeed, that is odd, but less spectacular than an quick glance might
> suggest. The libraries present seem to be those needed for the Perl FITS
> modules (cfitsio & NDF et al.).
>

Actually, I think that they are there because of PerlDL which has optional
support for GSD and NDF I/O. They've clearly wanted to fully spec perldl.
I'm very impressed. [I wander what licence they are using for the starlink
modules....]

--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj