2014-05-16 6:23 GMT-03:00 Susi Lehtola <jussileht...@fedoraproject.org>:

> On Thu, 15 May 2014 13:06:59 -0300
> Henrique Junior <henrique...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I was taking a look at Fedora Package DB and saw that some very
> > important computational chemistry softwares (ghemical, mopac, mpqcare...
> )
> > marked as orphaned in F20, is that correct?
> > As a chemist I'm very concerned about that.
> > No luck contacting carllibpst to ask.
>
> ghemical upstream is dead.
> New versions of mopac are non-free; so same thing here.
>
> mpqc hasn't had a stable release since 2006... although upstream seems
> active on github.
>
> Computational chemistry is by no means dead. There are big packages
> available for real calculations, e.g. NWChem and PSI4 are available in
> Fedora.
> --
> Susi Lehtola
> Fedora Project Contributor
> jussileht...@fedoraproject.org
>
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>

I have to disagree with you. Computational chemistry is not dead and I know
lots of chemists doing a great job in this area (both organic and
inorganic). MOPAC7 is still in good shape despite the age.

-- 
*Henrique C. S. Junior*
QuĂ­mica Industrial - UFRRJ
Centro de Processamento de Dados - PMP
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