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From: Dominik K. <dom...@gm...> - 2013-07-01 22:38:42
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Dear xrayutilities users During the last month a lot of things changed in xrayutilities. We (Eugen and me) converted the c-library to a Python c-extension. This sounds like a minor change but it makes xrayutilities a proper python package, which can be distributed and installed more easily. The most basic installation is now done using python setup.py install or python setup.py install --prefix=<installpath> To use the new version 0.99 download it from sourceforge or pull it from the GIT repository. For detailed installation instructions look into the readme file. Converting existing installations can be done by just installing the new package. Based on the current code we plan to release xrayutilities-1.0 soon. In case you find any bugs or have done any changes which you think are worth inclusion in this release please let us know within the upcoming weeks. Along with the change of the c-code we updated the Python code and added some new feature regarding parallelization and detector parameter determination and some basic unittests for core functionality to ensure that they work and do not get broken by code regressions. The detector parameter determination for area detectors can now be done with data from scans in the primary beam and at Bragg peaks of a known material measured in coplanar diffraction. This significantly increases the sensitivity to the "outer angle offset", which was previously quite pure for larger detector distances. The number of threads used by the parallel section of the code can now easily be changed in the xrayutilities configuration. More details about the configuration and other features can be found in the updated documentation (http://xrayutilties.sf.net) regards Dominik |
