Opened 12 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#37701 closed update (fixed)

Please update py-novas_py to 3.1.1

Reported by: cdeil (Christoph Deil) Owned by: lpsinger (Leo Singer)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.1.2
Keywords: Cc: lpsinger (Leo Singer), cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
Port: py-novas_py

Description

Could you please update the py-novas_py port to version 3.1.1, released September 2012?

According to http://pypi.python.org/pypi/novas/ novas now is Python 3 compatible, so Python 32 and 33 should be added to python.versions.

Python 25 should be removed from the list, because this package is not Python 2.5 compatible. It does install, but then on import gives this error for me:

$ python2.5 -c 'import novas'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/novas/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from ctypes import CDLL
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/ctypes/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: No module named _ctypes

One more point: At the moment the Portfile has license set to unknown. The PyPI page states this:

This software was produced by the United States Naval Observatory at the expense of United States taxpayers, and is therefore not suseptible to copyright, because a copyright would place taxpayer property under private ownership. Since it is not copyrighted, it cannot be licensed; it is simply free.

What should be set as "license" in the Portfile? Does anyone know if this is BSD compatible?

Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

This software was produced by the United States Naval Observatory at the expense of United States taxpayers, and is therefore not suseptible to copyright, because a copyright would place taxpayer property under private ownership. Since it is not copyrighted, it cannot be licensed; it is simply free.

What should be set as "license" in the Portfile?

"Public Domain" I'm pretty sure. That's what most US Government works go under.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

comment:3 in reply to:  1 Changed 12 years ago by seanfarley (Sean Farley)

Replying to egall@…:

This software was produced by the United States Naval Observatory at the expense of United States taxpayers, and is therefore not suseptible to copyright, because a copyright would place taxpayer property under private ownership. Since it is not copyrighted, it cannot be licensed; it is simply free.

What should be set as "license" in the Portfile?

"Public Domain" I'm pretty sure. That's what most US Government works go under.

I think that should be "public-domain," from what I read on PortfileRecipes.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by lpsinger (Leo Singer)

Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to aronnax@…
Status: newassigned

Ah, I had missed the update because the 'official' NOVAS web site, http://aa.usno.navy.mil/software/novas/novas_py/novaspy_intro.php, was not updated.

Is the official source now kept in GitHub, at https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-novas?

comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by cdeil (Christoph Deil)

Hmmm, I just had a closer look and now I think that 3.1.1 is not an official update.

Here's what I think happened:

The official NOVAS Python 3.1 was released at http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/software-products/novas/novas-python

Then Brandon Rhodes put it up on PyPI at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/novas/ to make it easier to find and install, e.g. with pip. Then he added Python 3 support and fixed one bug and release that as NOVAS Python 3.1.1 on PyPI. He also has this code at https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-novas .

This is getting confusing, maybe for now hold off on upgrading to 3.1.1. Adding the "public-domain" license and removing the Python 2.5 port would be improvements in any case.

comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by cdeil (Christoph Deil)

I did contact USNO and Brandon Rhodes via private email, asking them to make this situation more transparent. There's barely any astronomers using Python 3 at the moment ( http://astrofrog.github.com/blog/2013/01/13/what-python-installations-are-scientists-using/ ) , so let's just wait a few weeks to see what happens.

comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by lpsinger (Leo Singer)

OK, on GitHub I'm also asking Brandon to incorporate the patches to compat.py:

https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-novas/pull/1

comment:8 Changed 12 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

JFYI, python25's ctypes just can't be built 64-bit on OS X. Anyone using a 32-bit build_arch, which is the default for 10.6 on a 32-bit machine or 10.5 or 10.4 on any machine, would still be able to use it.

comment:9 Changed 11 years ago by lpsinger (Leo Singer)

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Fixed this some time ago.

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