Matt Newville

@tschoonj @bruceravel The larch server _should_ work on Windows, but I can believe it is slightly fragile in that the location of Python needs to be known ahead of time....

@bruceravel It may be that much of the code in "decode_data" is overkill for extracting simple scalars and arrays, as Demeter currently uses. The idea was to be able to...

@tschoonj @bruceravel I would definitely suggest that the beamline have a tool that reduced the data to something more sensible than a file with more than 20 columns. We (at...

Please do not use or encourage the use ifeffit for this. While it is open source and you are free to use it however you see fit, it has several...

@tschoonj ah, ok. I hadn't realized that ifeffit was needed for the build. I haven't thought about rpms for Larch. I use Centos and Fedora, but have tended to not...

@bruceravel > I think that 74ca326 fixes the issue that Ifeffit must be present in order to build Demeter. > I also think that Demeter will then run correctly if...

@tschoonj OK, after a little more investigation, I am less optimistic about being able to support Larch with the standard system Python stack included with Centos 7, as the packages...

@tschoonj I have no strong opinion on rpms for Fedora. I use Fedora and Centos and it is definitely a challenge keeping up with Fedora releases. But, I believe that...

@bruceravel Ah, it is complete reasonable for Larch to include a feff6l binary. It doesn't currently do that, but it could. I'll work on that for next release. Perhaps it...

@tschoonj I would be interested to know if you or any of the B18 staff have tried the Linear Combo capabilities in Larch's XAS Viewer (included in 0.9.40) and whether...