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Chandra-MARX / marx

Chandra X-ray Observatory ray-trace simulator
http://space.mit.edu/cxc/marx/
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ptools (pset, plist, ...) etc. are not installed by default and there is no instructions either #6

Open hamogu opened 9 years ago

hamogu commented 9 years ago

The marx sourcecode has a module pfiles which contains source code for pset, pwhich, plist and other ptools, but by default those tools are not installed with marx.

Tools with equivalent names (and as far as I know equivalent function) are, however, part of CIAO. So, is the source code for them really needed in marx?

Essentially there are three options to clean this up:

1) refer to the CIAO tools in the docs to set params this way and remove code from MARX 2) refer to CIAO docs, but leave marx code in current state in case anyone wants to manually install. 3) and to make all target or add instructions in docs for how to install these with marx.

Some of the ptools are documented in the docs as marxtools, but not all of them.

hamogu commented 9 years ago

If they are made by calling make and make install by hand in the pfiles directory they get installed with the other marx binaries.