Bruce, Matt, and the curious: Thanks for clarifying your distribution philosophy.
I think we haven't figured this out yet. Is it OK to download ifeffit-1.2.0.exe as the basic installer, and then install whatever updates to athena/artemis may exist on top of that?
I thought that people were, by and large, happy with the solution of dropping new athena & artemis exes on top of the old ones rather than downloading the 30MB installer every time I make an update. Since I
I very much like the current system of being able to 'plug-in' new versions of Athena and Artemis exe's as they are made available. I just wasn't sure if that approach was being abandoned.
In any case, either you got confused updating or we got confused building the installer. It *was* our intention that the new installer have Athena 0.8.019 and Artemis 0.6.004.
As far as what happened in the installation goes I'm not sure who was confused. Maybe I was pushing the installer a little too hard: I definitely chose the correct program to install Ifeffit 1.2.0 because: 1) Its filename is 'ifeffit-1.2.0.exe' which makes the choice pretty obvious 2) Ifeffit 1.2.0 was installed 3) When I repeated the procedure on Monday morning, making absolutely certain that I used ifeffit-1.2.0.exe, I was still left with Athena 0.8.015 and Artemis 0.5.008. (Those must have been the most recent versions of Athena and Artemis that I was using on that computer... I thought I was more up to date.) As I have done for Ifeffit installations in the past, I did no uninstallation or file deletion before trying the new install and I installed into the same directory as the existing version. When this Ravelware trouble caused me to look more closely at the directory contents, the only files that had May 2003 dates were the *.bat files and the new Ifeffit files. The dates on Athena and Artemis were still March 2003! However, during the install, I saw the installer say that it was unpacking Artemis and Athena. Apparently it did not install over the old versions (but it did install Ifeffit 1.2.0?!). The Solution: So, I uninstalled Ifeffit and deleted the remaining contents of the Ifeffit directory (Keeping my fingers crossed that the new install would work). The ensuing activation of ifeffit-1.2.0.exe now gives me the correct versions of Ifeffit, Artemis, and Athena! Now let's do some fitting. Thanks for your thoughts, Mark ------------------------------ Mark P. Jensen Chemistry Division Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, Illinois 60439-4831 USA 630-252-3670 630-252-7501 FAX mjensen@anl.gov