[Kst] healpix now GPL'd

[George Staikos]

On Monday 12 September 2005 12:41, Ted Kisner wrote:
> On Monday 12 September 2005 06:05, George Staikos wrote:
> >    How do you want to do the detection?  Prefer one over the other but
> > check for both?  Or configure flags?  Or a combination of both with one
> > overriding the other?
>
> As currently implemented, it checks for chealpix first then hpic (see
> configure.in.in).  However- the only code that is actually not already
> built in to the datasource is the pix <--> ang functions.  Soon hpic will
> be using a version of code for this ported from the c++ healpix (it is much
> faster than the current hpic implementation).
>
> So my plan is to just include these functions as well in the datasource and
> remove any external dependence on healpix libraries.  If cfitsio is
> installed, the healpix datasource will be built.
>
> Does this sound ok to everyone?

  It's fine with me.

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