Hello, I just wanted to echo Scott's sentiments. If someone has the time and energy to create for the Mac an executable version of the Artemis/Athena/IFEFFIT programs (and keep them updated), I'd also be very grateful. Being unfamiliar with Unix, I experienced the same problems as Scott in trying to get the programs up and running on my Mac. So, I bought a PC laptop specifically for doing data analysis with these very nice programs. Dean Hesterberg ************************************************** Hi again,
OK, I've reached a conclusion. For someone not currently using the open source UNIX tools and the like on the Mac, the project of getting Artemis, Athena, and IFEFFIT up and running is immense, because it means getting a large amount of additional infrastructure in place. Consider: Fink is required. Once Fink is installed, the x-free87-base package is required. That package, in turn, requires downloading 12 separate files (one-by-one, as far as I can tell). And that's just one part of a part of what is required (g77, pgplot, perl...). My estimate is that, with my lack of experience, it would take me a week full-time to get all this stuff working right. That's not a problem, of course, for people who already do development on the Mac and have most of this stuff set up anyway, or at least find uses for it other than getting the EXAFS packages to run. But it's too much of a time investment for me, and I suspect that the same is true for a lot of others in the field.
So I'm going to scrounge a pc from somewhere, transfer my data files
from the Mac, and download the executable there.
If at some point an executable appears for the Mac, I will thank the authors profusely...I realize that no one is getting paid to work on this!
--Scott Calvin Naval Research Lab Code 6344 _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit
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