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Dear McStas users and Monte-Carlo neutron simulators,
<p>This is just great. You probably noticed the new McStas site, which
is efficient, and pretty looking, as well as the resurection of the neutron-mc
list (with all archives, and the full list members). I have updated most
of the ILL McStas site links to the Risoe site.
<br>I would like to join Kim and Peter in saying that we have a lot of
plans for the near future of McStas.
<br>First of all, we shall continue the work around what we started together
last december in Risoe, where the first step towards version 1.6 was done
(It's today called 1.5a). Among the items on the to-do list, here are some
points we are thinking of:
<ol>
<li>
the NeXus format will be looked around, and possibly included in McStas
soon</li>
<li>
new Kernel features (groups, share, extensions, possibility to restart
a simulation, intermediate savings... ) will inspire the next release</li>
<li>
the installation problems that are now encountered on various systems (perl
libraries) will be looked at, and we should hopefully come to a solution</li>
<li>
probably new components (inelastic... ??)</li>
</ol>
I'd like to invite all of you to participate and give a lot of comments/ideas
(and possible solutions if you think about some), so that the next release
becomes yours, including all that you would like to see inside. Also, if
you have components that may be usefull to others, please send them to
Peter <<A HREF="mailto:peter.willendrup@risoe.dk">mailto:peter.willendrup@risoe.dk</A>> with a note explaining quickly
how it works, and a usage example (reasonable parameter values).
<p>Hope you will enjoy what's coming soon !
<br>Cheers, Emmanuel.
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