Paul, I'll look into the thing with the sum of paths. Thanks for the report.
A trivial question perhaps... I understand that the Artemis source is being split into a development version and a stable version. For those (like me) who like to live on the bleeding edge, where will the various sources reside? In particular, will the update_horae script upgrade to the latest development version (or perhaps there should be a switch for using the development version so it can't be executed by accident)?
Funny you should ask today because I was planning to answer your question by example later today! It is true that I am now maintaining two branches of Artemis. The stable branch is only getting bug fixes. The development branch, as you will soon see, aready as several significant new features as well as a facelift for its appearence. You bleeding edge sorts will soon have a lot to play with -- by which I mean, of course, a lot of new bugs to report ;-) The development version gets built and installed at the same time as the stable version when you build from source. That means that the horae_update script will automatically install both branches. The main program of the development version is called "diana" -- perhaps a little cutesy, but consistent with my naming theme. Additionally, there are a handful of files that get installed that are used only by the development version. It will, therefore, be very easy to switch back and forth between the to branches. For those who do not use the source tarballs (mostly Windows users) I won't be building executables of the development version until it has been tested for a while. I would like to avoid the confusion and difficulties from this spring and summer following the addition of atoms, feff, and the new project format. My hope is that the development process will weed out those bugs before the new code goes into wide use. My hope is to transition the development features into the stable branch in November or December. 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/