Christoph Deil

@sushobhana - do you have time for this, or should we move to v0.4?

I've talked with @tboch a bit about this on email today, and we both think (and are willing to put some work into) a BSD-licensed healpix Python package and then...

I took a quick stab at extracting it into a C lib: https://github.com/cdeil/healpix-temp After I added `os-features.h` it's asking for `os-features-config.h`, which I can't find in the astrometry.net repo (maybe...

@dstndstn - Sounds great, thanks! Actually, if you could put the files in a sub-folder in this repo that would be best: https://github.com/cdeil/healpix I've already set up travis-ci there and...

I've now put together the initial version of the package: https://github.com/cdeil/healpix There's a few setup issues with Cython and Sphinx that need to be sorted out: https://github.com/cdeil/healpix/issues Help with those...

Status update: @dstndstn added the `astrometry.net` HEALPIX C library code in https://github.com/cdeil/healpix/pull/6 At the moment it's here, can be compiled with `make` and C tests run: https://github.com/cdeil/healpix/tree/master/astrometry.net Next steps are...

This is now pretty far along: http://astropy-healpix.readthedocs.io/ @tboch - If you're up for it, we could make the switch soon? I had a look, the only functionality that's missing is...

@keflavich - What does including spectral regions here mean? Is it just adding something to the I/O and specutils becomes an optional dependency? Or do you mean changes to the...

@astrofrog - Can we close one of #2 or #3 to focus discussion in one place? And I don't have an opinion on this question at this point. Just getting...

> I agree on closing one (or both) of them since I think those use cases are covered by compositing. I suggest to keep one open. At the very least...