Simon Kolstoe wrote:
Meanwhile I think windows is slowly improving as a crystallography platform - and Microsoft is perhaps no longer hated in principle - however the one student in our lab who opted to go the windows route seems very limited in the software he can run.
I have a feeling that the lack of Windows software continues to be mostly due to the irrational animosity toward it rather than the platform-specific issues. After all, there seemed to be many developers who were happy to code for MacOS 7-9 but refused to release anything that runs in Windows. Meanwhile, that is the only platform we never hear about installation and dependencies issues. Given the large number of Windows versions of CCP4 downloaded, I assume this is not because nobody actually installs Windows software.
- Dima
