[MacPorts] #23075: Port request for Pyraf

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#23075: Port request for Pyraf
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 Reporter:  dcn@…               |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  request             |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.8.1                                
 Keywords:                      |        Port:  py26-pyraf                           
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Comment(by tim@…):

 there is one key dependency here that is not mentioned: IRAF
 (http://www.iraf.net/).  i am looking into a way to make a port of that,
 but it's far from trivial.  i have made fedora-compatible RPMs for it in
 the past and they worked quite well.  however, i did not compile the IRAF
 source in that process.  i simply repackaged the binaries that the IRAF
 group provides.  i can easily do the same for a macport, but i'm not sure
 what the policy is for such a thing.  building IRAF from source requires
 doing much of the build from within an IRAF environment.  not a trivial
 thing to accomplish from a non-interactive shell or tcl script.  also,
 using the IRAF-supplied official binaries makes reporting up-stream bugs
 and problems much more straightforward.

 once there is a working IRAF port, py26-pyraf is quite straightforward
 since it uses standard python build tools.

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