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Re: Bug#996203: ITP: ifeffit -- Interactive XAFS analysis program



On 2021-10-12 10:40 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
>   Description     : Interactive XAFS analysis program
> 
>  IFEFFIT is an interactive program for XAFS analysis. It combines the
>  high-quality analysis algorithms of AUTOBK and FEFFIT with graphical display
>  of XAFS data and general data manipulation.
>  .
>  IFEFFIT comes as a command-line program, but the underlying functionality is
>  available as a programming library. The IFEFFIT library can be used from C,
>  Fortran, Tcl, and Perl.
> 
> This package is to be maintained with the Debian Science Team and is a
> reintroduction of the same package, with all Python and GUI elements
> omitted from the packaging (no working Python3 support is available).

Something in this description should clarify what 'XAFS' refers to, or
at least what field of endeavour it lies in/deals with. As it stands,
if you don't already know, it tells you nothing more than 'this
program does analysis of data', which is a little too general.

Wookey
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