[MacPorts] #37616: Please add Sherpa port

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#37616: Please add Sherpa port
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 Reporter:  Deil.Christoph@…                     |      Owner:  macports-
     Type:  request                              |  tickets@…
 Priority:  Normal                               |     Status:  new
Component:  ports                                |  Milestone:
 Keywords:  astronomy, x-ray, modelling,         |    Version:  2.1.2
  fitting                                        |       Port:  sherpa
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 Would it be possible to create a port for the Sherpa Python modelling and
 fitting package ( http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/sherpa/ )?

 Sherpa is part of the larger CIAO package (
 http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/index.html ), but I think packaging that with
 Macports is too hard.

 But it is possible to get the standalone Sherpa version to work with Mac
 system or Macports Python (as opposed to the CIAO Python):
 http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/contrib/sherpa/
 http://www.astropython.org/tutorial/2010/1/Installing-Sherpa-standalone-
 for-X-ray-analysis

 The advantage is that sherpa would then be available together with all the
 other Macports python packages, as opposed to only with CIAO Sherpa.

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