[Ifeffit] athena 0.8.028, artemis 0.7.004, and hephaestus 0.02

[Bruce Ravel]

Hi folks,

I have just posted a new source code package for my codes on my web
page and on SourceForge.  You can now run the horae_update script.

I have also assembled the contents of the Windows updater, which
should be available in the next few days.  When it is ready, the
windows updater will notice and update you automatically.

Along with many bug fixes and feature enhancements in Athena and
Hephaestus, there are a large number of improvements in Artemis.

As you all no doubt remember, there were quite a large number of
serious bugs reported after the last release of Artemis.  With the
generous and patient help of several users I was able to understand
and correct about two dozen problems leading to all sorts of
misbehavior ranging from simple trap file generation to program
crashes.  I am guardedly optimistic that you will find the new release
to be a significant improvement over the last in terms of stability
and usability.

Among the big new features of Artemis are:

1.  An revamped Guess, Def, Set page with lots of new features.  I'll
    be sending out an email later this afternoon explaining the new
    GDS page.
2.  The ability to clone feff calculations.  This will be very helpful
    for those of you doing multiple data set fits.  This, too, will
    get its own email later today.
3.  New ways of viewing the log file.
4.  Expanded information about each path displayed on the paths page.

and lots of minor enhancements.  See the change log on my web site for
the complete list.

One caveat -- I once again made some changes to the format of the
artemis project file.  I will not be able to guarantee stability of
the project file format for a long time to come.  I'll make sure
Artemis can read in project files from previous versions, but it is
likely that any new version will write a project file that cannot be
completely imported by older versions.  That's just one more reason to
stay up-to-date!


Several people get an acknowledgement for their contributions to this
release: David Barton, Gerrit Schmithals, Aria Yang, Scott Calvin,
Peter Southon, and Dogan Paktunc all deserve a tip of the cap for
excellent suggestions and useful bug reports.  Shelly Kelly was
amazingly generous with her time in the last few weeks helping me to
debug the current version.  She also helped me design the new GDS page
and pushed me to add several of the other new features in the code.
All of you should buy Shelly a beer the next time you see her -- I
certainly will!

As always, let me know what suggestions you have or problems you run
into.

Bruce



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