Spextool Manager

A quality of life utility for managing Spextool installations

Features

A basic management tool and activation script
Predictable runtime environment clutter

Getting started

Clone the spexmgr repository

git clone https://github.com/jhunkeler/spexmgr

Add spexmgr to your path

export PATH="$(pwd)/spexmgr/bin:$PATH"

Install a Spextool release

Begin by listing all available versions:

$ spexmgr list
===========
 Available
===========
  1.4
  1.5
  2.0
  2.1
  2.2
  2.3
  3.1
  3.2
  3.3
  3.4
  4.0
  4.0.1
  4.0.2
  4.0.3
  4.1

Now install Spextool and its dependencies:

$ spexmgr install 4.1
spexmgr install 4.1
INFO: Downloading: Spextool_v4.1.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  190M  100  190M    0     0  22.2M      0  0:00:08  0:00:08 --:--:-- 25.8M
INFO: Installing: v4.1
INFO: Downloading: https://github.com/wlandsman/IDLAstro/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0  9.9M    0     0  8180k      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 12.9M
INFO: Downloading: https://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/coyote_astron.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  276k  100  276k    0     0   833k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  834k
INFO: Downloading: https://pages.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/down/cmtotal.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  689k  100  689k    0     0  1489k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1489k
INFO: Installing dependency: IDLAstro
INFO: Installing dependency: coyote
INFO: Installing dependency: cmtotal

In this example IDLAstro, coyote, and cmtotal are installed to share/ and Spextool-4.1 is installed to spex/4.1:

Activate Spextool

To activate a Spextool in your current shell:

source spexactivate 4.1

The activation script prepends share/ and spex/4.1 to IDL_PATH, and any previous activations are replaced. If you activate 4.1, then 4.0 in the same shell, then 4.1 will no longer be present in IDL_PATH.

Test it

As of v4.0:

$ idl
IDL> mc_testspextoolpath
% Compiled module: MC_TESTSPEXTOOLPATH.
% Compiled module: FILE_WHICH.
% Compiled module: READCOL.
% Compiled module: REMCHAR.
% Compiled module: GETTOK.
% READCOL: 1 valid lines read

Spextool version 4.1 loaded.

The Astronomy User's Library directories are in your IDL path.

The Markwardt MPFIT Library directories are in your IDL path.

The IDL paths are set correctly.

or earlier:

TODO ITEM

Commands

spexmgr

usage: spexmgr [-h] {command} [arg ...]

Arguments:
  --help    -h        this message

Commands:
  clean               Removed cached packages/archives
  list                List available spextool releases
  install {release}   Install a spextool release

spexactivate

usage: source spexactivate {release}