Re: octave forge fits package

[Emmanuel Brandt]

Here is the location for the fits package 
https://octave.sourceforge.io/fits/index.html

and here https://octave.sourceforge.io/fits/overview.html description of 
the 3 functions.

as Dirk Schmidt is not responding, let me share in attachement the 
modified version of the working package that I use daily with Octave 5.1.0

FY The only change is the replacement of deprecated D_INT by round().

Emmanuel



On 24/10/2019 17:28, Olaf Till wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 08:15:51AM -0400, JohnD wrote:
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Carnë Draug [mailto:address@hidden]
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 2:17 PM
> > > > > To: JohnD
> > > > > Cc: octave-maintainers; Dirk Schmidt
> > > > > Subject: Re: octave forge fits package
> > > > >
> > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > From: JohnD [mailto:address@hidden]
> > > > > > > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2019 10:19 AM
> > > > > > > To: address@hidden
> > > > > > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > > > > > Subject: octave forge fits package
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Is anyone actively maintaining this package (or intending to) ?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Looks like the forge repo hasn't been updated since 2015, and there a
> > > few
> > > > > > > bugs with it so it will now not install in 5.0.1.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'll willing to update and make a new release if all are ok with that
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > JD
> > So what is the protocol external packages that are not maintained? (or 
> > maintainer no longer contactable)
> >
> > Can I , or someone just take it over and declare it now not an external 
> > package? Or create a new package that happens to contain the GPL'd code in it ?
> I can't find a 'really external' fits package anywhere, so what we
> have at OF seems to be the dead end. I'd say it's ok to take it over.
>
> There seems to be a fits toolbox distributed with Matlab, which is a
> reason to maintain fits in the community category of OF, and keeping
> the name 'fits'. But then, we should give all the current functions in
> our package the names of their Matlab counterparts, and make them
> compatible, if possible. OTOH, having the current functions is better
> than having no fits package at all. They could be deprecated later in
> favour of more Matlab-compatible functions.
>
> Olaf

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