[Ifeffit] Installation of the last versions on XP

[Bruce Ravel]

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 10:34:46 Bruce Ravel wrote:
> I am genuinely concerned that you are having these problems.  It is
> our intention that the codes install and run easily on all the
> different platforms.  Judging from the large number of people on this
> mailing list happily using the codes, it would seem that we are mostly
> successful.  I am currently working on the windows installer in
> advance of  this summer's APS XAFS School, so now is a good moment to
> try to solve your problems.  If you are inclined to help me
> troubleshoot, I am inclined to attempt to solve the problem.

A followup to the unicode issue:

I use a tool called PerlApp to build stand-alone windows executables
of my codes.  While researching how it handles temporary directory
creation, I came across the following:

  http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43697

It would seem that the issue Kleper and Shiryaev are seeing is the
result of that bug, which has been resolved in recent versions of
PerlApp.  I was certainly using a version of PerlApp that showed this
problem when the previous installer was made.

I am now using version 7.2, so things should work fine for non-ascii
language speakers.  I will communicate with Kleper and Shiryaev off
the list to ask them to test the new installer.

Regards,
B


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