Cleaned up README. Updated installation instruction.

README

@@ -1,34 +1 @@
-This is a prototype module for manipulating spectra.
-It is intended for it to be used for synthetic
-photometry, i.e. constructing source spectra and
-then passing these spectra through an astronomical
-observatory (e.g. HST, JWST...).
-
-Install the module the usual way:
-
-python setup.py install
-
-The spectrum manipulation module spectrum.py will work
-standalone, whereas the observationmode.py module
-is designed to work with the HST synphot database, so
-won't be much use unless you also install these files.
-(You don't need to install the synphot software; only its 
-datafiles.) You can get them from
-
-http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/stsdas/synphot
-
-You must define the environment variable PYSYN_CDBS to point
-to the top level directory where you have installed these files.
-
-If you have questions about this module, send mail to
-help@stsci.edu and it will get to the appropriate
-person.
-
-.....
-
-The current revision is $Rev$.
-
-It has the following dependencies:
-  - numpy v1.0 or higher
-  - PyFITS v1.1 or higher
-  - matplotlib v0.9 or higher
+For full documentation, please see http://ssb.stsci.edu/pysynphot/docs/ .

doc/source/index.rst

@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ object-oriented replacement for STSDAS SYNPHOT synthetic photometry package in
 IRAF. It is distributed as part of
 `stsci_python <http://www.stsci.edu/institute/software_hardware/pyraf/stsci_python/>`_,
 `Ureka <http://ssb.stsci.edu/ureka/>`_, and also as
-`standalone <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysynphot/>`_ (not recommended).
+`standalone <https://github.com/spacetelescope/pysynphot/releases>`_
+(`its PyPI distribution <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysynphot/>`_ is no
+longer supported).
 Although this package was developed for HST, it can be utilized with other
 observatories.
 
@@ -57,6 +59,11 @@ Unless you are using Ureka, the following dependencies must be installed first:
 * `numpy <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy>`_ 1.7 or greater
 * `matplotlib <http://matplotlib.org/>`_ (optional)
 
+To install the
+`standalone <https://github.com/spacetelescope/pysynphot/releases>`_ release::
+
+    pip install https://github.com/spacetelescope/pysynphot/archive/0.9.8.2.zip
+
 **pysynphot** is not fully tested under Python 3. Please use Python 2.7.
 
 Data files for **pysynphot** are distributed separately by