1 This version of PsN is tested with perl-5.8.4
2 Depending on your distribution you may have to install the following
8 All available from CPAN ( www.cpan.org )
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13 Changes from 2.1.6 to 2.1.7
16 - "clean" and "compress" options now work under Windows.
17 - SCM now handles crashed runs appropriately.
18 - The ofv_forward, ofv_backward, p_forward and p_backward options of
19 scm now works as they should.
22 - SCM improvements. The final model is now available in the
23 first-level scm directory of each step.
24 - The Utilties -help option is improved. You can now give a list of
25 options to -help for specific documentation of those options, like
28 $ scm -help do_not_drop
30 - Minor changes in how the [nm_version] section in psn.conf i
31 handled. Look in the psn.conf file that is distributed with PsN for
33 - SDE modelfiles are now supported. (see the -sde_records option)
34 - The update_inits method of the model class now accepts an output
36 - Some attributes and accessors of the PsN-Core class 'output' have
37 had their names changed to make it more clear what their purposes
39 finalgrad is now called final_gradient
40 parampath is now called parameter_path
41 gradientpath is now called gradient_path
42 covterm is now called covstep_termination
43 - The Utilties now saves the command line that started it in a file
44 "command.txt" under the corresponding directory.
45 - Added a "silent" option to the Utilties that quenches all output.
46 - "nice" option added to utilties that allows you to set priority in
48 - Rudimentary support for NorduGrid reinstated.
49 - Installer script rewritten. It now supports Perl installations in
50 nonstandard directories. Discrepancies between *nix and MSWin32 is
54 - The code that is autogenerated with "dia2code" is optimized a
55 bit and saves a hash "__valid_parameters" in each object, which
56 allows the constructors to be used as a generic (shallow) copy.
59 - continuous spelled correctly throughout SCM.
62 Changes from 2.1.5 to 2.1.6
65 - Stratify_on bug in bootstrap method fixed.
66 - Data files in directories different from model file are now
68 - Path name handling reimplemented. Relative paths are now handled
70 - Models that generate table files would make PsN complain about
72 - Its now possible to specify multiple output names as a
73 comma-separated list to execute.
74 - The scm can now go backwards.
75 - Handling of table files now responds to the
76 "ignore_missing_output_files" flag.
77 - nmtran error messages was lost in Windows 2K. Execution of nmtran
78 is more plattform independent now. It uses a temporary file, but
79 it is never bigger than the nmtran messages.
80 - Fixed a bug that limited choice of compiler under unix.
81 - Typo in scm utility fixed. (included_relations in backwards step).
84 - Added support for "$NONPARAMETRIC" record in model files.
85 - A few improved error messages related to parsing of model files.
86 - The SCM config file now features sections for parameter bounds and
90 - psn.conf settings are now available as global variables. psn.conf