python setup.py build / test fails

[cdeil]

I get errors when I try to run python setup.py test or python setup.py build: https://gist.github.com/cdeil/121d7d90003d627f0613

@keflavich Do you want to make this an affiliated Astropy package and maintain it, or would it maybe make sense to combine this with python-reprojection?

cc @astrofrog

[keflavich]

I'm fine with either approach, though I'd prefer to find someone else to step in as maintainer (or at least, get some contributors).

I'm checking out the bug...

[keflavich]

@cdeil are you using py3?

[keflavich]

Nevermind - I couldn't reproduce this at first, but cleaning out conftest.py led to this error. As far as I can tell, it comes from astropy-helpers.

[cdeil]

Concerning FITS_tools and python-reprojection ... my main point is that both already have nice functionality, but are not ready for end-users due to lack of time of the few people working on them, so it could make sense to combine them to have reduced maintenance effort. But @astrofrog will probably know best what makes sense.

[astrofrog]

I've started to try and put reprojection stuff in one place: https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/2731

For now it just does the interpolation, but the idea would be to extend it to have the Montage version (I have a local branch that does that) and also the drizzle algorithm (the STScI devs will help with that).

[astrofrog]

This was done at the SciPy sprint and wasn't advertised yet but since you bring it up, just thought I'd mention it :) After discussions at the sprint, we decided it would make sense for this to live in the core package, not just an affiliated package, since reprojection is so fundamental to most observational astronomers.

[keflavich]

I can't figure out the bug. If I run python setup.py test a second time, it goes away, but

usage: -c [options] [file_or_dir] [file_or_dir] [...]
-c: error: unrecognized arguments: --doctest-rst

shows up

[cdeil]

I think this package has not been updated to use astropy-helpers? It probably doesn't make sense to debug such issues before that's done?

[keflavich]

I tried doing that earlier using subtree (second answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1425892/how-do-you-merge-two-git-repositories, not the full subtree package), so I may have done it wrong, but it claimed to be up to date.

[cdeil]

But the FITS_tools/setup.py in master has been last updated in May and is very different from the one in package-template!?

[keflavich]

yeah, I guess the merge just failed