Dear Brian and Bob, When installing GSAS-II on a Windows machine, I follow the link and end up at https://anl.app.box.com/v/GSASII4windows12, but then nothing. I get a blank screen and no download started. I am using firefox, have reloaded and retried. Could the link be down?
best regards, Lambert On 12/08/17 06:41, Toby, Brian H. wrote: > Today we posted version 3000 of GSAS-II(!) This makes the previous “2 frame” > version of GSAS-II, available for testing, into the standard release. If you > have not seen it, what has happened is that we have combined the “data tree” > and “data editing” windows into a single window, so now GSAS-II creates only > two windows, one for plots/graphics and the other for the GUI. (N.B. Frame is > the wxPython name for a window, which is why we called this “2 frame”). All > comments we have gotten on this change have been positive. Note that we > recommend running GSAS-II so that output goes to a cmd/terminal window so > there is an additional display-only window for error and status messages. > > If you previously used the help menu to switch to the test “2frame” version, > when you make your next update (soon, we suggest), it should switch back to > the standard “trunk” version. If you are still using the old version with > separate windows, we suggest updating right away. Either way, GSAS-II from > this point forward will have the two GUI windows combined. Also, starting > with version 3002, the help option to switch to the test/standard version > should disappear from the menu. > > There have been some other fairly recent changes. One is that GSAS-II > refinements have gotten about a factor of two faster. Also, to reduce the > size of the GSAS-II download, we no longer include binary files for all > platforms in the standard installation. Instead running the bootstrap.py or > GSASII.py file will download one set of binaries matching the platform you > are using. If you are hosting a GSAS-II installation on a server for multiple > platforms, you will likely want to install all the binaries. To do that use > the bootstrap.py -server option (step #8 on > https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/trac/pyGSAS/wiki/InstallLinux). Note, if > you installed GSAS-II with a admin account, you need to run it (or > bootstrap.py) from that admin account to perform upgrades. If you upgrade > from inside GSAS-II, the first time you run it, it will install the > appropriate binary files, so you will likely need to run GSAS-II once from > that admin account so that it can write to the subdirectory where the binary > files will be installed. > > These changes will likely introduce some unintended consequences (aka bugs). > Please let us know about them. > > Brian (& Bob) > _______________________________________________ > GSAS-II mailing list > GSAS-II@mailman.aps.anl.gov > https://mailman.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/gsas-ii _______________________________________________ GSAS-II mailing list GSAS-II@mailman.aps.anl.gov https://mailman.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/gsas-ii
