EGSnrc 2023 has been released

[ftessier]

The 2023 version of EGSnrc has been released on February 15 (there was no release in 2022). Notable changes from the previous version are listed in the release notes. Please review the recommended way to cite EGSnrc. To install EGSnrc, clone the repository and follow the installation instructions for your operating system.

[karl63]

This version contains a code of conduct. What do we need it for? We have been living for many years without it. Why now? uncorect behavior if we want to call it that is always "self correcting". If someone writes "I pretend the solution for my problem and I want it tomorrow " or if someone posts a question and one sees that she did not try at least to solve the problem no one will answer . It is as simple as that. Also I never saw when some wrote "I did this and this and this, but then I got That and that and that error message" that the answer was "You are a complete idiot if you are not even able to solve this simple problem by yourself" Or the like.
On the covenant website I read "We recognize that the adoption of a code of conduct can be a source of confusion or even a n g e r for some people in an open source community" That is exactly what I feel. The community is considered as a bunch of badly behaved children on which the woke agenda must be enforced. Up to one year ago I was a member of the AAPM. When they required me to sign a code of conduct, I left the association.

[ftessier]

Indeed we added a code of conduct. It clarifies what you can expect when participating in the EGSnrc project. We are certainly not asking anyone to sign anything.

[AndrewFielding]

Installed the 2023 version for Windows. When I try and build and compile accelerator models (including supplied examples) in BEAMnrc, builds ok, but compilation fails. The same accelerators build and compile in 2021 version and older versions ok. The installation instructions still say you should use minGW compilers v7.3.0, is this still the case for 2023 version?

[rtownson]

@rtownson is this related to #972?

Possibly, yes.

Could you share your installation log, found in HEN_HOUSE/log? The newest minGW compilers do not work, I'm not sure where exactly the cutoff is. So depending on what you see in the log, you could try an older version.

[AndrewFielding]

I'm using minGW 7.3.0, which is the recommended version. EGSnrc 2021 and earlier all compile ok with this.

I think its the COMPILE_TIME error ftessier referred to in #972, see the screenshot below

[rtownson]

If you are comfortable, you can try making this change yourself: HEN_HOUSE/specs/all_common.spec

Just change line 145, removing $(shell cmd /C tzutil /g). Then recompile your accelerator.

[AndrewFielding]

I made that change and had the same problem. Found that the same command is in the HEN_HOUSE/specs/beamnrc.spec file as well, change needs to be in that file also. Then acccelerator seems to compile ok.

Thanks for your help.

[rtownson]

Thanks for pointing this out, I've added that change to the fix in the PR.