On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 06:38:26PM +0000, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 10:37:32AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2025/06/09 09:21, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > I needed to get info about sunrise and sunset. I am aware of py3-astral
> > > but wanted to compare both, ephem and astral.
> > 
> > Given the warnings on https://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/, I'm wondering
> > if this is really a good idea to import unless there's some other
> > software intended to be ported that needs it? Skyfield (largely
> > from the same author and more actively developed) generally seems
> > a better idea, for sunrise and sunset calcs see e.g.
> > https://techoverflow.net/2022/06/19/how-to-compute-sunrise-sunset-in-python-using-skyfield/
> > 
> > If it is still worthwhile, here's a slightly tweaked version.
> > 
> 
> Hm.. Right. I looked into skyfield and your other ports. Very useful,
> but skyfield and the DSP file(s) and the dependency tree are much bigger
> than pyephem. Not sure. Disk is cheap these days, so not a big issue.
> I've also noticed that execution of skyfield is slower than pyephem,
> but also not a big issue. I am okay to be a maintainer for pyephem,
> if that helps. I think I need time to decided what I want and iterate
> over the software a bit.
> 

Anything which would allow me to show or calculate sunrise and sunset
on OpenBSD would be useful for me. Could you import kosmorro and related
dependencies into ports tree, Stuart?

I tested it at the time, when you send it and it worked well.

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Regards,
 Mikolaj