On Monday 19 April 2004 05:11 pm, Jeff Terry wrote:
It's also so unmac-like to force users to compile from scratch.
I acknowledge that this was said with tongue in cheek. Still, I cannot come up with the right language to express how extremely little being "mac-like" matters to me. That said, I think that I neglected to mention a few of the underlying assumptions of my last posting. Assumption #1: My codes have bugs. Some of them get in the way of getting work done. Assumption #2: I am constantly working on fixing the problems in my codes. That is a good thing. Assumption #3: People would prefer to avail themselves of code that fixes serious bugs in the timeliest manner possible because it is better to use code with fewer bugs than code with more bugs. I maintain the source code package continuously. Thus, the fastest way to disseminate bug fixes to end users is in the form of source code. This has the additional advantage of not requiring the additional and probably time consuming step of building and verifying a binary package. But I am not the sort to pass judgement on a culture that I am not a part of. If doing things the "Macintosh way" takes priority over doing anaylsis with code which has fewer bugs, than that is just fine with me. B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/