Simon Kolstoe wrote:
>Meanwhile I think windows is slowly improving as a crystallography
>platform - and Microsoft is perhaps no longer hated in principle - however
>the one student in our lab who opted to go the windows route seems very
>limited in the software he can run.
I have a feeling that the lack of Windows software continues to be mostly
due to the irrational animosity toward it rather than the platform-specific
issues. After all, there seemed to be many developers who were happy to
code for MacOS 7-9 but refused to release anything that runs in Windows.
Meanwhile, that is the only platform we never hear about installation and
dependencies issues. Given the large number of Windows versions of CCP4
downloaded, I assume this is not because nobody actually installs Windows
software.
- Dima
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