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Sorry for the delay - I've been on leave for a week.

I'll look into doing proper github releases when I make the next ast
release. Not sure when that will be as yet, but they are fairly
frequent. I'll also upgrade the version of PAL shipped with AST.

David

On 27 October 2016 at 17:30, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Now that AST is a separate git repo I am definitely in favor of uploading
> new versions there as proper gihub releases (with the distro tar ball and
> release notes) and linking that repo to Zenodo as well.
>
> I will try to update the release on github for PAL. I made a couple of
> tweaks to the build system to let it work with LSST's EUPS package system.
>
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Sarah Graves <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'd vote for putting the release tags on github, if it isn't a big hassle
>> (and I'd also vote for considering that the primary way to find the latest
>> version).
>>
>> (I thought that download page was just a convenient location to store
>> files linked off the Starlink wiki, I hope we aren't meant to be putting any
>> other software code tar balls there...)
>>
>> Sarah
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>> On 27 October 2016 at 13:08, Ole Streicher <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> for the Debian packaging, I regularly look into the download location
>>>
>>> http://www.starlink.ac.uk/download/pal
>>>
>>> to check whether there is a new version of PAL. Similarly with AST.
>>> However, while AST got a new version yesterday, the pal subdir remains
>>> unchanged since 2014 (latest version 0.5.0), which is also the current
>>> Debian version. This however somehow contradicts the "Releases" tab on
>>> github:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Starlink/pal/releases
>>>
>>> that has as last release "v0.9.3", dated of 23 Sep 2015. For AST, the
>>> problem is vice versa: the download location is updated regularly, but
>>> github has just one version tagged.
>>>
>>> Could you specify, which is the recommended way to get the latest
>>> version, and/or synchronize the two ways?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Ole
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>> --
>> Dr Sarah Graves
>> Scientific Programmer
>> East Asian Observatory/JCMT
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