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IRAF v2.15 and 64-bit -- A Status Report
Authored by: favilac on Thursday, December 03 2009 @ 02:43 PM GMT
I think is great you will have a unified linux package. However, which linux distribution will be your testbed? From history I guess it will be RHEL 5 but it is getting old and RHEL 6 seems to be released next year.
Ubuntu is getting more popular (I maintain a script to install IRAF on it and I get a lot of traffic lately) and LTS releases have been quite solid and predictable as they are released every two years.
Authored by: fitz on Thursday, December 03 2009 @ 04:40 PM GMT
The original reason for the split (long ago) was incompatibilities between the GLibc5 used by RedHat and GLibc4 used by everyone else. This is no longer the case (and hasn't been for a while) and the distribution used doesn't matter so much anymore as long as we're careful. There might be reasons to have both static and dynamically linked binaries at some point, but RHEL vs Ubuntu vs Debian vs whatever are mostly in the user interface and not the bits iraf cares about.
The point about a single linux distro is to simplify the building of IRAF distributions (it takes a while to build 8 PCIX systems from a common code base, especially when I have to scrounge machines or configure virtual machines to do it). Note v2.15 will also have a simpler build-from-source option if you're so inclined.
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However, which linux distribution will be your testbed? From history I guess it will be RHEL 5 but it is getting old and RHEL 6 seems to be released next year.
Ubuntu is getting more popular (I maintain a script to install IRAF on it and I get a lot of traffic lately) and LTS releases have been quite solid and predictable as they are released every two years.
Anyway, which distro will be the base? :)
The point about a single linux distro is to simplify the building of IRAF distributions (it takes a while to build 8 PCIX systems from a common code base, especially when I have to scrounge machines or configure virtual machines to do it). Note v2.15 will also have a simpler build-from-source option if you're so inclined.