On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Bruce Ravel <bra...@bnl.gov> wrote: > > Hi gang, > > I just heard from Frank Schima, the fellow who kindly provided > packaging of Demeter via MacPorts. Frank is moving to a new position > at NIST Boulder and will no longer be providing IT support for the > group out there that does some XAS. That means his availability to > maintain and update the MacPorts package will be somewhere between > slim and non-existent. Here is what he said: > > I am no longer working for Quantum Devices as of Friday, > 10/31/2014. So I will no longer be involved in updating Demeter and > will be unsubscribing from the Ifeffit mailing list. For updates > please follow the Macports procedures to request an update in > Macports by opening a Trac ticket [1]. I may actually be able to > perform the update but I cannot guarantee anything. > > [1] <https://trac.macports.org/newticket> > > I know that this support for the Mac was valued by many people in our > community, so Frank will be missed.
Definitely! Frank, you've contributed a huge amount of work and added real value for many people in the XAFS community. Thank you so much. > I am not able to provide packaging support for Mac users. Even if I > had the time or energy to take on a new packaging responsibility, I > simply don't own a Mac. > > This would be a good time for someone to step up and take over > responsibility for the Mac package. It seems that Frank has done the > bulk of the work. The MacPort ecosystem seems to be well supported > and well documented, so I would think that someone else could readily > step into that role. I completely agree that this represents an ideal opportunity for someone else to help out. I know that many people, including me, rely on this version of the software. --Matt _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit