[Ifeffit] Ifeffit 1.0072 released

[Carlo U. Segre]

Matt:

Is it possible that the new version breaks something that athena is
looking for when it determies if it can be installed on the system.  I
have to go back to the previous version in order to get athena to install
at all.

Carlo



On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Matt Newville wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I figured that it had been long enough for version 1.0071, so
>posted version 1.0072 today.
>
>This version has several small feature improvements and bug
>fixes.  There is also a fairly substantial changes to the
>'configure ; make ' on Unix, so that the perl and python
>extensions are no longer built during this process, but have to
>be built after installation of the library, with the 'normal
>method' for these languages:
>  cd wrappers/python
>  python setup.py install
>  cd wrappers/perl
>  perl Makefile.PL ; make install
>
>This change greatly simplifies the work of the configuration
>script and is much more reliable.
>
>The other major change is that the internals of macro handling
>were largely rewritten so that nested macros work correctly in
>all cases (including on windows).  Related to that, macros that
>are run by feffit() and minimize() at each iteration of the
>fitting loop now run correctly as well.
>
>I have a Windows dll ready, but am having difficulty making
>standalone executables from the ravelware perl scripts.
>Hopefully that will get worked out soon so that a new Windows
>installer with the latest athena, artemis, and tkatoms, as well
>as gifeffit and samxas will be possible.
>
>I've also started (but haven't gotten very far on) an annoted
>collection of ifeffit scripts, intended to be something of a
>'how-to' or 'cookbook' for ifeffit commands that will
>complement the documents and FAQ.  Any suggestions or comments
>on this would be very welcome.
>
>Finally, I am really expecting that 1.0072 represents a nearly
>complete version of Ifeffit 1.0.  I believe the XAFS analysis
>functionality is more-or-less complete at this point.  I'm
>willing to fix bugs, and add small features, but would like to
>try to leave this version stable and to start working (even if
>slowly!) on much more significant changes that would eventually
>become Ifeffit 2.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Matt
>
>
>
>
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