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