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McStas 2.2 has been released and is ready for download via <a href="http://downloads.mcstas.org/mcstas-2.2" class="">http://downloads.mcstas.org/mcstas-2.2</a><br class="">
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Selected, important highligts from the release are:<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• General:<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• The new component/instrument keyword DEPENDENCY allows to automatically </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> compile instruments with external libraries.<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• The Mantid-IDF generation through our Perl mcdisplay tool has been optimized.<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Bugfix: The use of WHEN with EXTEND code only considered the first statement </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> (report by M. Appel)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Infrastructure:<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• McStas (and its X-ray counterpart McXtrace) are now on GitHub, </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> see https://github.com/McStasMcXtrace/McCode<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• We will continually provide various bits of "missing information" on the related Wiki </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> at https://github.com/McStasMcXtrace/McCode/wiki</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Components:<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• A new model for the ESS butterfly moderator - see documentation for the ESS_moderator.comp. </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> Developed by Peter Willendrup in close collaboration with Troels Schoenfeldt DTU Nutech/ESS. <br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>** A separate document with recommended settings for this component will be released later, </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>also a version backported to McStas 1.12c. **<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• The Isotropic_Sqw component was broken in McStas 2.1. The expected behaviour has been </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> restored. Users of this component should upgrade to McStas 2.2 asap. Sorry for the inconvenience.<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Instruments:<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• ILL_IN13 backscattering instrument contributed by Emmanuel Farhi<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• ILL_IN4 tof instrument contributed by Emmanuel Farhi<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Datafiles:<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Improved water Sqw data files contributed by Emmanuel Farhi (- see also JNST 52 (2015) 844 )<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Added CaF2 crystal, improved Al2O3 sapphire transmission<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Tools:<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• McStas 2.2 is the first release to include a first version of our new mcgui-py tool, based on Python, </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> QT and Scintilla. We think it is a very nice start at this long-awaited replacement of mcgui (Perl) </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> and want you to try it out even though a few edges may still be rough here and there. For installation </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> instructions, see the README's included with the installation packages.<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• McStas 2.2 further includes a simple mcplot plotter for Unix platforms (Linux, OS X) based solely on </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> shell-script + Matlab/iFit/Octave, no need for Perl or Python with this plotter, called mcplot-matlab<br class="">
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Greetings from the McStas team - hope you will enjoy this new release! :-)
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