fun with casa

[heroxbd@gentoo.org]

Hi all,

CASA downloaded from

     http://casa.nrao.edu/casa_obtaining.shtml

is scary. It extracts to 2.4GiB and integrates:

  1. casacore
  2. boost
  3. qt4
  4. python + numpy + matplotlib + ipython

with lots of LD_LIBRARY_PATH dirty hacks involved.


I am aware that upstream is not interested in packaging

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688107#37


I would like to ask the list:

  - has anyone tried to substitute the bundled libraries with those from
    the OS?

  - has anyone tried to compile casa from scratch, like documented in

    https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/Software/CasaDevUbuntu ?


We might at least strip off the bundled libraries to persuade upstream
to release lighter weight tarballs.

Cheers,
Benda