Re: ISIS and heasoft 6.6

From: John Houck <houck_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:59:06 -0500
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:35 -0500, Michael Nowak wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:24 AM, John E. Davis wrote:
> >Aren't the xspec models now available separately?  If so, perhaps isis
> >could be distributed with a snapshot of the models, and periodically
> >updated when new models are released.  It seems to me that this would
> >simplify the isis build.
> 
> Yes, they are.  It was something of an experiment, at the request of  
> the HEASARC users committee.  1) I do not know if they keep up with  
> the bug fixes as readily as the main HEASOFT distributions (now coming  
> every 2 months), 2) I haven't tried building XSPEC local models  
> against them (quite a number of XSPEC local models rely on the fact  
> that XSPEC will be there, and hence it's subroutines are fully  
> available - part of the goal of such a separate release was to make  
> builds of models that assumed this easier for others), 

I don't think it's possible to build xspec local models without
a complete xspec installation.

-John
Received on Wed Dec 03 2008 - 09:59:09 EST

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