Re: Astronomy related software in Guix

[Sharlatan Hellseher]

Hi,

Thank you Ole for your reply.

I'd pin this thread in Guix Science mailing list to attract anyone interested in this subject.

Some of the listed projects are already available (cfitsio, wcslib, wcstools, astropy, sunpy, jwst, ...) some are still in review (GDL, plplot).

Working in collaboration with Iliya to bring Nemo to Guix.

Regards,

Oleg

On Mon, 16 Oct 2023, 14:09 Ole Streicher, <olebole@debian.org> wrote:

Dear Oleg,

when we started with Debian Astro, we mainly had the same problem. At
the end, it depends on your needs, and the needs of your (potential)
community. I started with what seemed to be needed in my institute; that
was mainly ds9, wcslib, wcstools, cfitsio, ftools-fv. ds9 and ftool-fv
give the main functionality to display FITS images and tables; however
they are quite old now, and wcslib+cfitsio are the basic libraries.

Then, there is the astropy ecosystem, which is today one of the building
blocks for data analysis; including ipython, jupyter notebooks,
matplotlib, scipy, numpy etc. This is however not a "game changer"
because people can (and will) install it from PyPI.

Definitely worthwile to package is also Source-Extractor, and maybe
other software from astromatic.

One other constituent is Topcat, which bring together with the program
itself brings a whole Java infrastructure to handle astronomy data files.

Finally people are very happy to get older legacy packages ready-to-run:
IRAF, x11iraf, pyRAF, ESO-MIDAS. The GNU Datalanguage is a replacement
for the legacy IDL, which is also helpful for some people.

I hope this small list helps you somehow :-)

Cheers

Ole

On 10.10.23 02:50, Sharlatan Hellseher wrote:
> Hi Ole,
>
> I hope this message finds you well. I came across your name as a contributor to
> Debian Astro.
>
> I follow your updates  in https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team
> and would like to ask for advise on priority you picked to prepare packages.
>
> I am also interested in using Guix for astronomy software and was wondering if
> you could offer some advice. Specifically, as an expert in astronomical software
> priority list for packaging, I was wondering if you could provide a list of
> priority astronomical/astrophysical software that would be beneficial to include
> in Guix. I understand that this may vary depending on the needs and interests of
> the community, but any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Guix provides source base destribution of software and
> which may be reproduced very strictly. It was successfully deployed in
> Bioinformatics researches already.
>
> Thank you for your time and contributions to Debian Astro.
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
>
> P.S. Some reference links
> - https://guix.gnu.org/en/about/ About the project.
> - https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/astronomy.scm
> Available packages definition related to astronomy, astrophysics, solar dynamics
> or galaxy dynamics.
> - https://packages.guix.gnu.org/ Packages search (26472 availalbe)
> - https://git.sr.ht/~hellseher/ffab/tree/main/item/TODO.md My personal list of
>    software queued to be packed.
>
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