Bug#123100: ITP: openbabel -- Converter for chemical file formats
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:47:40PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:03:55PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > > Openbabel compiles and is useable, but no official release has been done
> > > yet. I will upload packages as soon as this happens.
> >
> > Well if it is useable then you can upload it right now.
>
> As it's a library (C++ even) I'm a bit hesitant to upload it now, with
> all the SO-name stuff one has to think of. Also, there are some issues
> with the datafiles I'm sorting out right now.
Ok I see.
> > But if a official release is very close you can wait some.
>
> 'Early next year' according to the main developer...
Ok that sounds like you can wait some. On the other hand it might not
break that much until then. :)
> > If you have problems with the version
>
> Hmm, the current version seems to be 2.0a1. Do you know if dpkg
> considers 2.0 to be greater than 2.0a1?
Well I'm not sure. Anyway you can add a x:version to the version
number to indicate that it really should be higher.
Example:
1:54-0 is higher than 0:99-0
0:4 is higher than 4.
> Actually, I could upload just the binary, statically compiled, so it
Why statically?
> gets into woody. Several packages mention babel in their description, so
> this might be worthwhile. The library can come later when the interfaces
> are settled. Note also that openbabel does not compile under gcc-3.0
> right now, although upstream promised to work on this next week.
Then you can wait.
> thanks for the suggestions,
No prob. :)
Regards,
// Ola
> Michael
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