I thought I would jump in here and say I have been compiling my own version of ifeffit and horae-033 (the last time the day 033 came out). I know something about programming and am very interested in getting horae and ifeffit as packages in fink. In essence the work I now do for myself for the latest horae to run could be used by every one who can type "fink update horae". Info on fink is available at http:fink.sourceforge.net. In other words once everything is set up, I would be glad to be the maintainer. Of course, the installer concept is easier, but rather wasteful of resources (all that usually needs to be recompiled is horae, e.g. ifeffit, pgplot, perl widgets etc. are all the same between releases of horae so the amount of files to be downloaded is much less (about 5 MB for 033). Now that Matt is maintaining a Mac installer, putting up a fink version still makes sense as it is quick and light meaning, since I upgrade horae for myself, I can have the updated version available very quickly (little or no repackaging is required (unlike an installer) as the fink system would download horae itself locally, I would only upload install scripts and dependency files. For Mac users there is another (slight) advantage in that the fink pgplot is aquaterm enabled (aquaterm.sourceforge.net); aquaterm is a cocoa application that displays the pgplot output instead of X11. The biggest advantage is that it buffers its input so the graphics can be resized anytime (pgplot does not buffer anything internally so this is not possible in X11 directly). It also allows direct printing and saving of any window (it would support multiple windows let's say if athena and artemis or multiple copies of either were running) as an eps or pdf file (these features are supported directly by the Mac OS so it is not pgplot doing the rerendering). Are there any mac users out there that might be interested. Stefano, I will be going to Triesete next month to do an experiment with Federico Boscherini (from Bologna as well -- physics department). Is there any chance you will be there? Paul On Apr 15, 2004, at 12:41 AM, Stefano Ciurli wrote:
Ciao Carlo,
It is my understanding that Mac OSX has something called fink which works much like Debian's apt-get.
yes it has. But I am not a guru of linux or unix (to say the least) and as a newcomer I used the installer provided kindly by Matt. For other programs I used fink, no problem. You can go and see some interesting pages at http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/
I have always been curious as to whether source packages from a Debian system could be ported easily through this method? Can you tell me a bit about it?
not much. I follow the instructions given in the site I give above to install the programs I need, mostrly for crystallography and protein NMR. Ciao, Stefano
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