On Saturday 09 September 2006 11:02, Mauro Rovezzi wrote:
I really like your new project! I think it's a great idea because Athena&Artemis are good softwares but clicking on them all the day it's quite boring.
Exactly. To my mind, the biggest problem is that it is difficult, time consuming, and error prone to encode a complex fitting model using Artemis' GUI. I forsee that one of my common uses of Demeter will be to encode a complex fitting model in a one-off script and have that script write out an Artemis project file. Then I'll get the good parts of the GUI while using something automated to deal with the tedious parts.
On the other hand, I find the Ifeffit wrapper too low-level.
In fairness, Ifeffit is great at doing its low-level thing. It's just that low-level tools tend not to scale up gracefully.
Well, Demeter seems to me the best solution as a middle-level interface to Ifeffit, that permits to fork to user-oriented projects written in Perl. I also appreciate the choice to move this project to a version control system (Subversion), that is the future possibility for users to directly contribute to the code.
Thanks for all the kind words, Mauro. I am excited that you get the point of middleware and that you get the point of using Subversion. Even if you use and don't contribute, Subversion lets you always use up-to-the-minute code. B -- Bruce Ravel ---------------------------------------------- bravel@anl.gov Molecular Environmental Science Group, Building 203, Room E-165 MRCAT, Sector 10, Advanced Photon Source, Building 433, Room B007 Argonne National Laboratory phone and voice mail: (1) 630 252 5033 Argonne IL 60439, USA fax: (1) 630 252 9793 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/