Re: Rasmol needs severe contribution to stay in Debian
People used to rasmol interface will likely prefer rasmol over X (pymol,
viewmol, I like qutemol too for rendering..).
For these users, it will take some time before rasmol becomes obsoleted
by pymol or more recent WebGL based molecular viewers such as NGL (MIT
licence, http://nglviewer.org/ngl/gallery/).
Le 03/07/2018 à 19:03, Drew Parsons a écrit :
> On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 15:25 +0100, Carnë Draug wrote:
>> On 3 July 2018 at 14:59, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the bug log of #790196[1] shows that rasmol in its current state
>>> will
>>> not be distributable with Buster. Upstream is dead so if we want
>>> to
>>> keep it in Debian we have the option:
>>>
>>> 1) Port it to Gtk+ 3 (see porting guide [2])
>>> 2) Find a Gtk+ 2 replacement for libvte
>>> 3) Give up and remove this package from Debian
>>>
>>>
> ...
>> Maybe option 3 is not that bad. Debian also packages pymol which is
>> used even more [4] so it's not like rasmol users will be left without
>> an
>> alternative.
> I'd be joyful if someone kept rasmol alive.
>
> But viewmol is also an alternative which I've continued to find useful.
>
> Drew
>
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