Hi Folks: Although these mailing lists are generally for complaining about stuff that doesn't work, and although I've never been the type of person to write my laundry detergent company to tell them how much I enjoy their product, I wanted to take a moment to thank Jack Howarth for helping me out with a package I maintain (ccp4) that consists of a couple of hundred programs, mostly fortran, that macromolecular X- ray crystallographers (like me) cannot live without.
The transition to gfortran has been nontrivial for ccp4, and with the impending upgrade, I was beginning to think it would be impossible to get this to work. Jack spent many hours helping me out with this thing (the package is a nightmare to compile -- well over 2 hours on my G5 iMac, and every typo sends you back to the beginning) and more importantly with his knowledge of fortran (mine is essentially nonexistent) he was able not only to get this working but to do so much more efficiently than before. This was incredibly generous. Jack doesn't even use these programs to my knowledge -- he uses a competing experimental technique. So I just want to thank him publicly, and hope he isn't too embarrassed. He saved my arse on several other packages in the last couple of years too, including gromacs (which he now maintains), pymol, apbs, and molmol (I am likely missing other examples). Thanks, Jack. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
