From 12c84c208e656e5e4b7a440cf3df1802f880be81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Brigitta=20Sip=C5=91cz?= Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 11:17:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: revising top level readme --- README.rst | 33 +++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 515e4ccb..ad2672aa 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -22,16 +22,15 @@ Virtual observatory (VO) using Python. Its development was launched by the NSF/NASA-funded Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) project (formerly under the name VAOpy) as part of its -initiative to bring VO capabilities to desktop. The VAO website has since -gone offline; an archived snapshot is available at -https://web.archive.org/web/20190106160759/http://usvao.org/. -Its goal is to allow astronomers and tool developers to access data and +initiative to bring VO capabilities to desktop. + +PyVO main goal is to allow astronomers and tool developers to access data and services from remote archives and other web resources. It takes advantage of VO standards to give access to thousands of catalogs, data archives, information services, and analysis tools. It also takes advantage of the general capabilities of Astopy (and numpy), and -so a secondary goal is to provide a development platform for migrating -more VO capabilities into Astropy. +so a secondary goal is to provide a development platform for prototypes for +functionalities that are under development and not yet accepted as a VO standard. Source code can be found `on GitHub `_ @@ -47,28 +46,6 @@ thus, it and its prerequisites can be most easily installed using ``pip``: Releases are also conda packaged and available on the ``conda-forge`` channel. - -PyVO requires Python 3.8 or later. - -The following packages are required for PyVO: - - * `astropy `__ (>=4.1) - * `requests `_ - -The following packages are optional dependencies and are required for the -full functionality: - - * pillow - * defusedxml - -For running the tests, and building the documentation, the following -infrastructure packages are required: - -* `pytest-astropy `__ -* requests-mock -* `sphinx-astropy `__ - - To install from source use ``pip``: pip install .[all]