McStas ILL Web site trial

[Kristian Nielsen]

> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:18:28 +0100
> From: Farhi <farhi at ill.fr>

> I've seen that you added the ILL web page. Great. I think it will stay here for a while
> anyway (I'm in charge of this, huh ?)

Ok.

> About the problem of writting 'good' components, the best is to gather the components, and if
> we see that one is not really clear, contact the author to improve this. I'm defining some
> 'good programmer's tips' in the ILL web page. Tell me if it suits you.

Looks good. I thought some more about how to maintain the unofficial
component libraries across the two web sites. My suggestion is that you
simply take over the library completely, so that the Risø page simply
has a link to the ILL library. What you have now on the ILL page in
terms of components is already much better than what I ever had on the
Risø pages. There also seems to be much more activity currently at the
ILL in terms of actually running simulations than we will ever be able
to do at Risø, so it makes sense to maintain the component library
there. At Risø we will then concentrate on developing the McStas core,
and maintaining the official component library (those with full
documentation in the manual).

Of course, I will keep closely involved in the ILL component library,
possibly using the accounts I have on the ILL Unix and Linux
machines. What do you think?

> About sorting components in the directories you gave, it seems reasonable. McStas should also
> continue to search in it's component root directory (for compatibility and unsorted
> components).

Ok, I will implement this in the next version.

> command line. He also wanted to use a string instrument parameter, but this does not seem to
> be handled by McStas. It could be useful when one single simulation would be used with

Yes, this is important, and I will include it in version 2, along with
many other enhancements for parameters

> Afetr heavy dicussions with me, Tref has been trying a Runge Kutta integration inside a
> magnetic component, in order to describe the neutron spin swiming in B field. Seems to
> work... (only alpha of course)

Sounds very interesting!

Keep those suggestions coming! I hope that I will see you in January at
the ILL Monte Carlo workshop on the 21th.

 - Kristian.