Re: [ccp4bb] updated XDS binaries available

[Kay Diederichs]

Justin Lecher schrieb:

George M. Sheldrick schrieb:

Is it really essential to force users to update XDS every four months,
especially when "No other changes were made to the binaries"?

George

Perhaps some kind of override by an environmental variable would be
beneficial. I know this procedure from other scientific software. It is
easy to apply, but also reminds to update if possible.

Thanks, justin

Hi Justin,



There are two reasons why XDS binaries are time-limited:






best,

Kay
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I wrote to George privately (didn't realize that it was a CCP4BB posting) and repeat it here: "well, the plan was to release binaries that _do_ have updates, but the testing takes more time." a) new binaries usually have improvements over the old ones, and time-limited binaries give people the latest and greatest version. b) XDS is developed by a single person (Wolfgang Kabsch), and supported by at most two (if I count myself as one of them). In this situation, previous versions of binaries are a support nightmare. This speaks against the "environment variable" solution that you suggest. How long does it take to download the tar file, unpack it and copy the binaries over the old ones?

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