Apologies Re: [infomap-nlp-users] recent install problems

[Dominic W. <dwi...@cs...>]

Dear All,

A couple of users recently have had problems installing the infomap
software, and I have to apologise that with my current day job, new dog
and an old house to fix up I'm not going to be able to be much help any
time soon. At the moment, infomap-nlp-0.8.5 is not working for me on MacOS
either, but the development version from CVS at sourceforge is fine.

I therefore have 2 suggestions:
* If you want to checkout the version from CVS you can request to become a
developer on the project - it's a simple process to sign up for a
sourceforge accound and then you can checkout the current source code.
* You could wait a couple of weeks in the hope that we get round to
realeasing a version 0.8.6. I'm going to wait a bit on this because a
couple of new users have kindly offered to become developers and check in
some bug-fixes.

Again, apologies for this lack of responsiveness - all of the original
infomap project team have moved on from Stanford and the only way that the
software is going to improve is if people find it useful enough to take a
lead in development. I'm already very grateful that this has happened in a
few cases, so hopefully the future is positive. Deep thanks to those who
have already contributed.

Please feel free to register bugs directly on the sourceforge site - even
if we're not good at fixing them, it's the best way to keep a record and
there's always the chance that a new user might fix an old bug.

Best wishes,
Dominic