Windows Installer for Ifeffit 1.2.0
Bruce and Matt and everybody else, I am probably missing something, but the Artemis and Athena splash screens from the new Ifeffit 1.2.0 windows installer that I just used say that it installed Athena 0.8.015 and Artemis 0.5.008 and Ifeffit 1.2.0. Initially, I thought that the windows installer would (as in the past) include the latest (and greatest) versions of Athena and Artemis. But now that I think about it more, Matt seemed to indicate that he wants a stable distribution, which might mean older versions of Athena and Artemis. Bruce's website, on the other hand, seems to say that the windows installer for Ifeffit 1.2.0 would have the most recent windows versions of Artemis and Athena. I politely ask, which of these ideas is winning and when can windows users hope for some new versions of the Ravel-ware. Mark Jensen ------------------------------ 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
Hi Mark, Hmm, I'm not sure what happened.... I just downloaded it and it worked OK for me, reporting athena 0.8.019. I did notice that Sixpack was using an old version of the dll, and just fixed that. Could you try again?
Initially, I thought that the windows installer would (as in the past) include the latest (and greatest) versions of Athena and Artemis. But now that I think about it more, Matt seemed to indicate that he wants a stable distribution, which might mean older versions of Athena and Artemis. Bruce's website, on the other hand, seems to say that the windows installer for Ifeffit 1.2.0 would have the most recent windows versions of Artemis and Athena. I politely ask, which of these ideas is winning and when can windows users hope for some new versions of the Ravel-ware.
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? The updates could use an installer that asked (or tried to figure out) where ifeffit was installed, but that's up to Bruce. The latest 'Ravelware' updates could also be on Sourceforge, but that's up to Bruce too. Alternatively, we can try to convince someone (perhaps Bruce) to generate a new windows installer for ifeffit-1.2.0XXX.exe every time the applications are updated, and uploading the latest to Sourceforge. --Matt
Hmmm... I too am confused by what Mark saw. I thought that the new installer was essentially the one I built the other day using the latest versions of athena and artemis. Could you possibly have gotten confused by an old version of the installer lying around on your computer?
I politely ask, which of these ideas is winning and when can windows users hope for some new versions of the Ravel-ware.
I think we haven't figured this out yet.
I'm with Matt. In fairness to he and Sam and I, this whole notion of branching into stable and development versions is still less than a week old. We need to define what stable is before we can consider branching. 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.
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? The updates could use an installer that asked (or tried to figure out) where ifeffit was installed, but that's up to Bruce.
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 update much more frequently that Matt updates the library, that seemed sensible and not too difficult. It has occured to me that I should write a little program that could be installed to the Start menu that checks to see if new versions are available and downloads them if they are. That shouldn't be too difficult, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
The latest 'Ravelware' updates could also be on Sourceforge, but that's up to Bruce too.
That's my intention. But again, the SourceForge solution has been in place a very short time so far ...
Alternatively, we can try to convince someone (perhaps Bruce) to generate a new windows installer for ifeffit-1.2.0XXX.exe every time the applications are updated, and uploading the latest to Sourceforge.
I could be convinced, but, for most of my updates, it is not really necessary to download the whole enchilada. It seems that a Windows updater for my software should be quite enough. B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b, X24c, U4b 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/
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