On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:25 am, ALAM Sher wrote:
Thus I suggest that like you did with Tk let us know ahead of time for which perl version the programs are tested.
To the best of my knowledge, my codes will work as far back as perl 5.005 (but I must confess I don't have a computer lying around running that old of a version). The more severe dependence is on perl/Tk, which must be one of the version 800 releases. The 400 releases will not work and the 804 releases will not work. (As far as I know, there is still a bug in the HList widget which trips up Artemis.) The fix I made yesterday with regard to the "longmess" error message used a syntax that I am confident will work in 5.8 or 5.6. The error was in using some syntactic sugar that would not work with the older version of the Carp.pm module.
The other thing that is not clear to me is that if you say for example that programs require perl xyz or later, do you actually check that they run under the allowed versions? before releasing......
I write the codes with 5.8.1 on my linux machine and use 5.6.1 when I build then on my windows machine. I have purposefully not updated to 5.8 on windows for that reason. I have to point out that there really is not such thing as a "release" for Athena and Artemis at this stage. Every version is a beta version and every user is a bug tester. I would love to have a testing department here at Ravelware International, LLC, but I am little short-handed in terms of staffing ;-) But I am responsive to bug reports. So keep on filing them! 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/