[lsst-dm-stack-users] New release of the software stack

[Mario Juric]

On 5/2/13 13:41 , Heather Kelly wrote:
> 
> Hi Mario,
> 
> While the updates in this release are likely not anything we need
> immediately, in the interest of clean living, we'd likely want to
> upgrade when it's convenient.  The binary distributions do come in handy
> - in particular for Mac and RHEL5-64 though having them available for
> all supported platforms is welcome.  We should be able to build from
> source at SLAC on RHEL6-64.
> 

Hi Heather,
	OK, great! We'll have the binaries built, but it will probably take at
least a ~week or so (due to review + workshop travel next week).

> Jim had mentioned he hadn't noticed the update in FITS header handling
> that allowed for "." in the keywords.  Did that change make it in?  I'm
> hoping we'll be moving away from "." in favor of "_" anyhow.
> 

Just checked, that change is not in (it requires some uncomfortable
changes in the code that we'd want to avoid, esp. if you're planning to
switch to '_' anyhow).

Cheers,
-- 
Mario Juric,
Data Mgmt. Project Scientist, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
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