astropy/astropy — pull request #495 by iguananaut (2012-11-20 16:13:54+00:00)
Title: Fits merge

This merges up through r1927 from pyfits' SVN repository. It's probably more than any one person can trawl through but I'd appreciate any comments nonetheless. It might be easier to go back to the pyfits repo itself and look through the individual commits.

Before merging this I do need to update the changelog with a list of all the issues closed. This is already added to the documentation in the "PyFITS History" page but the relevant fixes should also be copied over to the actual Astropy changelog.

This also adds support for using `--use-system-cfitsio` to build the compression module with an already installed copy of CFITSIO rather than the one I'm including in Astropy. This will close #318.