Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit 1.0076

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Tsu-Chien Weng said:

TW> Hi Dr. Newville, MN> It is OK if I just remove the perl module from the source kit so MN> there's no potential conflict with horae? If not, I should MN> probably keep the perl module in the distribution up to date with MN> the horae!!

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ifeffit but does not want to use athena. However, you definately should make sure that ifeffit keeps up to date with horae. And you should make it so that the perl wrapper is not built by default.

TW> Will it be easier to create a HORAE_install script like TW> PGPLOT_install than keeping it up-to-date? Just an idea... My codes and PGPLOT do not occupy similar places in the Ifeffit universe. PGPLOT is the plotting backend that Ifeffit uses. It typically only needs to be installed once, prior to the first time that you install any version of Ifeffit. When you upgrade Ifeffit, you should normally not need to touch PGPLOT. Horae, on the other hand, is my package of wrappers around Ifeffit's core of functionality. That is, it is a front end to Ifeffit. What's more, I tend to release new versions of the horae package a couple times a month, whereas Matt has been releasing new versions of the Ifeffit library only every few months. It is, therefore, the case that you will want to upgrade horae much more often that ifeffit. This is contrast to pgplot, which you will upgrade much less often than Ifeffit. Matt and I made a considered decision to have horae be separate from the ifeffit package. Part of that decision was due to a bug in perl's build system which was making it difficult to install ifeffit and horae in one fell swoop, but part of the decision was that my upgrade cycle is so very much faster. I really want to encourage people to keep up with my releases rather than waiting for Matt to get around to releasing a new version of the whole thing. In any case, a script like you suggest could be made, but it really is not very necessary. It is not so difficult to find, download, and build my stuff. This is another difference from PGPLOT, which is quite a chore to correctly build. B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b, X24c, U4b 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/