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 -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Björnkärrsgatan 5 A.11 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 584 36 LINKÖPING | | +46 (0)13-17 69 83 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
