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On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:51 AM, Peter W. Draper wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Peter W. Draper wrote: > >> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Peter W. Draper wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, David Berry wrote: >>> > On 12/07/07, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> > > It's been pointed out to me that our cfitsio is "ancient" and >>> we > > really >>> > > should be using v3. Is there any objection to upgrading? >>> > > > > If we are making a new release at the end of the month, >>> should we wait > > to >>> > > do the upgrade until after the release? >>> > > Looking at the change log, there are a huge number of >>> changes. So it >>> > would probably be safer to leave updating cfitsio until after the >>> > release. >>> >>> Agreed. >> >> And the release has come and gone, so I'm now going to do this job. >> There are a fair few packages that depend indirectly on CFITSIO, >> mostly through their use of CAT, but hopefully this will be painless. > > Finished the update to CFITSIO version 3. To test this probably best > to remove your existing thirdparty/heasarc/cfitsio directory > completely, refresh from SVN and re-bootstrap, build & install. > > Clearly it would be useful if everyone could update this critical > component as soon as possible. > > Thanks. I've update JAC in Hilo. Await the screams... -- Tim Jenness Joint Astronomy Centre