build test failure

[beckermr]

So it appears that when using the fits reader from astropy, the test suite for galsim has a failure.

ERROR: Test the PyAstWCS class
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/Users/beckermr_admin/Desktop/galsim_install/src/GalSim-1.3.0/tests/test_wcs.py", line 1613, in test_pyastwcs
    wcs = galsim.PyAstWCS(file_name, dir=dir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/galsim/fitswcs.py", line 434, in __init__
    wcsinfo = self._load_from_header(header, hdu)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/galsim/fitswcs.py", line 476, in _load_from_header
    fc = starlink.Ast.FitsChan(starlink.Atl.PyFITSAdapter(hdu))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/starlink/Atl.py", line 106, in __init__
    self.pyfits_3_1_0 = ( LooseVersion(pyfits.__version__) >=
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'

It turns out this is not a failure of galsim, but actually of starlink, since this library is asking for the __version__ attribute which is not set for the latest pyfits version in astropy. I don't know if galsim needs to do anything about this. Should this be marked as a known failure?

[rmjarvis]

Thanks for posting this Matt. This wasn't a problem with previous versions of starlink. I've posted an issue on their site here.

[beckermr]

OK. With the latest starlink-pyast that was just pushed to pypi (3.8.0) the test suite passes just fine. I am closing this issue.