First I am impressed by the effort that is put into following up close ESO scisoft releases and its porting to Macs. Making it even more Apple-like by installing in the App. structure is a great idea. It allows a better management of the Mac files.
BUT: it seems this new versions has some teething issues:
1- this new version won't install properly on a *case sensitive formatted file system*. The App. folder structure includes folder's names with upper and lower cases, which are not mirrored in the installation/Setup scripts,
E.g. for midas and iraf, the path are given ALL in lower cases will the real path need to be set with upper cases.
2- Some symbolic links follow a path that is incorrect (irespective of Upper/Lower case issue).
Scisoft
Astronomical software collection.
Version: 2009.9.1
Scisoft and Case Sensitive file systems
Feedback Type: Troubleshooting Report
Contributed by: Vanessa_DP Tuesday, September 30 2008 @ 01:41 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
System Info:Mac Intel 64bit (Leopard 10.5.5)
Case Sensitive Journalled file System
X11 from Xquartz foundation 2.3.1
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