FergusDid you know you can install HEASOFT's XSPEC model library for #xray #astronomy in seconds with #python pip?
No? Well that's because you couldn't. But now you can:
This saves you about 2 hours of downloading an enormous tarball, and about 40 minutes of horrendously serial compilation. I managed to put it together thanks to #julia BinaryBuilder.jl and quite literally re-inventing the (Python) wheel. I'll write a blog post about it soon, as there's some fun things I learned in doing so.
Sharlatan@fergus how about reproducibility? If there is a source code available somewhere I may try to package it in the next #guixastroupdate