On Wednesday 28 July 2004 12:47 pm, SCHLEGEL Michel 177447 wrote:
versions of Athena and Artemis as script, or if you will ask each and every Windows user to compile his/her own little executable. In the later case, You'll have to explain me.
Well, the point I was trying to make was that building and testing windows executables adds considerably to my work. I would like to be able to release the development version frequently -- the early-and-often approach to software development. If I have to build windows exes everytime, that will slow me down, wear me out, and make it not worth my time to bother with the whole idea of a fork. So, yes, I am suggesting that windows users who want to help test the development version run them as normal perl scripts (which is, of course, how linux and osx users run them). Obviously this is NOT something that most people (beginnning students, computerphobes, the impatient) would want to do. But for someone who is willing to devote a little bit of time and mental energy, this is a great way that person can contribute substantively to my effort.
Othervise, the new version runs fabulously great, apart from a minor point: I can't fit simultaneously several spectra (polarization data) in q-space. TApparently Artemis traps some kind of error message. but the software keeps on running.
OK, thanks for the report. I'll look into it. q-space fitting is not one of the well-tested corners of the code since I never do that myself.
Otherwise, there's a little practical point which bothers me: when it comes to publishingand citing, we know how to shower praise on Matt, but we are still yearning for some sound reference for the Ravelware. Is there any chance that this 'bug' will get fixed in the near future?
Complain to Physica Scripta and/or the people who ran last year's XAFS conference. The conference proceedings will contain the reference for A&A, but here we are 13 months after the conference and the proceedings languish under the heading "Forthcoming Topical Issues" on the Physica Script web site. If you ask me, this whole situation with the XAFS12 conference proceedings is a fuckin' pile of crap. 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/