[Ifeffit] Ifeffit 1.2.6

[Stefano Ciurli]

Hello Bruce,

>The problem you see is most certainly an Artemis problem and not an Ifeffit
>problem.  The info in the trap file suggests to me that you have rediscovered
>one of the problems I have recently fixed.  Alas, I am at the synchrotron
>right now but I hope to get a new release out next week.

thanks a lot. You should be awarded "the most patient guy" trophy!
On my side, I try things out and try to help. When I report bugs or 
non-understandeable (for me) trap files, I feel compelled to send 
them out for you to screen them. So please bear with me. I am sure 
you understand that I try to contribute and, of course needless to 
say, not to criticize.

To say that Athena is much more reliable than Artemis is an 
understatement! :-))

As soon as I have some ten minutes free today I will send the 
feff.inp and the data out, as Paul suggested, so that you guys can 
see if the same problem happens to you.

>I completely agree that Athena is in much better shape at the moment than is
>Artemis.  In the small amount of time that I had between a trip to Europe and
>the recent exafs course at NSLS, I made a few bug fixes to Artemis and built
>an exe for use in the course.  It behaved *much* better than the last
>release.  Still a few bugs, but much better.  Since then, I have squished a
>few more bugs still.  As I said, I'll try to get a new version out next week.

OK.

>Paul was competely correct in observing that bugs go along with new features. 
>The sad truth is that all my users are also my beta testers.  I have decided
>not to add any new features to Artemis for the rest of the summer -- just bug
>fixes.  This will help me make a stable version (it should also help me get
>some papers written if I am not writing code!!).  As the current version with
>the current feature set stabilizes, I plan to fork Artemis into stable and
>development branches.  This means more work for me, but the last few months
>have been brutal for all of us as the many recent features of Artemis have
>settled.  It seems like a really good time to fork Artemis.

OK. Great!
Ciao,
Stefano
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Stefano Ciurli
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University of Bologna
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