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.
Peter.
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