PyEphem provides an ephem Python package for performing high-precision
astronomy computations. The underlying numeric routines are coded in C
and are the same ones that drive the popular XEphem astronomy application,
whose author, Elwood Charles Downey, generously gave permission for their
use in PyEphem. The name ephem is short for the word ephemeris, which is
the traditional term for a table giving the position of a planet, asteroid,
or comet for a series of dates.
See also: https://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above. NOTE: This is a Python port. Instead of py311-ephem listed in the above command, you can pick from the names under the Packages section.
astro/py-ephem: Update to 4.2.1
- First release that offers wheels for Python 3.14
- Star database now makes the star Albereo available under its more
official spelling Albireo
- Classes like Sun and Mercury are now defined using plain literal
class statements, instead of being built dynamically in a for loop.
This should make the classes visible to tools like editors,
debuggers, and type checkers.
Strip had to be changed from PYTHON_TAG to PYTHON_SUFFIX in order to
also support threaded Python versions (3.13t).
Changelog: https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/pyephem/blob/master/ephem/doc/CHANGELOG.rst#version-421-2026-february-28
Reported by: Repology
MFH: 2026Q1
python.mk: rename PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX to PYTHON_TAG, document, etc
EXT_SUFFIX, according to PEP 3149, refers to the full tag and
extension for compiled extension module objects, eg .cpython-311.so,
.cpython-313t.so, etc. We do not use the correct semantic meaning,
and this usage becomes ambiguous and confusing when tags do not
match between bytecode and compiled extension module objects.
Rename our PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX to PYTHON_TAG to align with PEP 3147's
specification of a magic tag, which consists of implementation name
and shorthand version only. This is meant for bytecode and other
files containing this tag in their filename that do not depend on
a specific Python ABI for the same version. Chase all existing
consumers.
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python: bump all USE_PYTHON=distutils consumers after RUN_DEPENDS removal
Any missed ports, feel free to bump.
Any ports that need setuptools at runtime can have the devel/py-setuptools
manually added back to RUN_DEPENDS, but understand that this practice
is deprecated; see CHANGES for details.
all: remove explicit versions in USES=python for "3.x+"
The logic in USES=python will automatically convert this to 3.8+ by
itself.
Adjust two ports that only had Python 3.7 mentioned but build fine
on Python 3.8 too.
finance/quickfix: mark BROKEN with PYTHON
libtool: compile: c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I -I. -I.. -I../.. -I../C++
-DLIBICONV_PLUG -DPYTHON_MAJOR_VERSION=3 -Wno-unused-variable
-Wno-maybe-uninitialized -O2 -pipe -DLIBICONV_PLUG -fstack-protector-strong
-fno-strict-aliasing -DLIBICONV_PLUG -Wall -ansi
-Wno-unused-command-line-argument -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings
-Wno-overloaded-virtual -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-deprecated -std=c++0x
-MT _quickfix_la-QuickfixPython.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/_quickfix_la-QuickfixPython.Tpo -c QuickfixPython.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o
.libs/_quickfix_la-QuickfixPython.o
warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-maybe-uninitialized'; did you mean
'-Wno-uninitialized'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]
QuickfixPython.cpp:175:11: fatal error: 'Python.h' file not found
^~~~~~~~~~
1 warning and 1 error generated.
Reviewed by: portmgr, vishwin, yuri
Differential Revision: <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40568>
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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astro: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* ABURAYER Rewsirow <rewsirow@ff.iij4u.or.jp>
* Alexander Leidinger
* Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
* Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
* Andrey Zakhvatov
* Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
* Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
* Anton Karpov <toxa@toxahost.ru>
* Brion Moss <brion@queeg.com>
* Bruce M Simpson <bms@FreeBSD.org>
* Chris Piazza <cpiazza@FreeBSD.org>
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astro/py-ephem: Update to 4.0.0.2
Bugfix release for ephem.Observer().lon hanging and specifying
ellipsoids used for Earth.
Reported by: portscout, Repology
astro/py-ephem: Update to 4.0.0.1
Major release update with many bugfixes, enhancements and
some new features [1]
[1] https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/pyephem/compare/v3.7.7.1...4.0.0
- Upgrade project to MIT license
- Use Python>=3.7, because of UnicodeDecodeError in ascii.py
- Generalize post-install target
- Removed now unneeded files/patch-setup.py
- Patch deprecated functions in test_satellity.py and _libastro.c
All 160 tests run ok.
Reported by: Repology
Relax hardcoded paths to fix build with Python 3.8.7
Since r558913 Python 3.8 incorporates BPO-42604 [1] which changed the
shared libs naming scheme. This means "EXT_SUFFIX" is now derived from
SOABI and yields with Python 3.8 to ".cpython-38.so" instead of ".so".
The affected ports strip the libaries in the "post-install" target via
hardcoded path(s) and the build fails at the end because the new extension
is not expected at this place.
Remedy the issue by adding wildcards to these paths. This should also
prepare the ports for future Python releases, which will use the new shared
libs naming scheme.
[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue42604
PR: 252057
Reported by: John Kennedy
Reviewed by: fluffy, koobs
Approved by: koobs (python)
Change the maintainer entry in rhurlin's ports
After I got a commit bit for ports, it is time now to change the maintainers
entry in all 'owned' ports.
Approved by: tcberner (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26398
[NEW PORT] astro/py-ephem: Compute positions of the planets and stars
PyEphem provides an ephem Python package for performing high-precision
astronomy computations. The underlying numeric routines are coded in C
and are the same ones that drive the popular XEphem astronomy application,
whose author, Elwood Charles Downey, generously gave permission for their
use in PyEphem. The name ephem is short for the word ephemeris, which is
the traditional term for a table giving the position of a planet, asteroid,
or comet for a series of dates.
WWW: https://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
WWW: https://pypi.org/project/ephem/
[1] Based on astro/pyephem
PR: 240736
Submitted by: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin gwdg de>
MFH: 2019Q4 (required for fixing pyephem, unbreaking gnuradio et al)
