[daip] install help (fwd)

[Neal Miller]

Sorry - I replied and realized I missed the "daip" group...

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:16:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Neal Miller <nmiller at narya.pha.jhu.edu>
To: Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>
Subject: Re: install help

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Eric Greisen wrote:

> There are some things I do not understand about this - so far as I can
> remember the tables formats have not been changed in years and years.
> 
> I need to know a few things I did not ask before - when you install
> aips do you do the binay installation or compile things yourself?
> What compilers (in detail incl versions) did you use if any?
> What sort of computers are your new and old ones?

In each case, I've installed using the binaries. The Install
Wizard is fantastic, by the way. At JHU, Goddard, and STScI
I've encountered trepidation among sysadmins about having
to install AIPS which I attribute to ignorance and possible
past bad experience. I've found it quite simple and straight-
forward to perform workstation installations.

Each computer is Linux (RedHat Enterprise, I think) running
on a Dell. I didn't see a tranparent way to get particulars
of OS and kernal, but have contacted a local sysadmin and
should be able to provide more information shortly.

> There ahve been a variety of changes in CALIB between 31DEC04 and
> 31DEC06 so I would be less suprised to see changes in that test.
> 
> Are you saying that copying the 31DEC07 "final" uv data to the 31DEC06
> installation yields the same image as was obtained in the 31DEC07
> version?  This would seem to let IMAGR off the hook for problems
> anyway.

Yes, this seems to be the case. I was exclusively using the
older machine and 31DEC06 aips, so I've got plenty of "final"
uv datasets that were created on that platform. I can FITLD
them into the new machine with 31DEC07 aips and then run IMAGR,
obtaining the same results as I obtained with the 31DEC06
installation.

Thanks,
Neal