Dear list, for a project of mine, I wanted to be able to use Avogadro (which in turn uses OpenBabel) to visualize trajectories stored in the VTF file format [1], and therefore added a minimal implementation to OpenBabel. I I would like to contribute the file format support, if there is interest.
If so, there are a few questions that I could not find the answers to: 1) Is there a coding style guideline for OpenBabel that you would like contributed code to follow? 2) Am I allowed to introduce dependencies to Boost libraries? In particular, I would like to use lexical_cast, optional, tokenizer, and the regex library, the latter not being header-only. 3) Alternatively, are there plans to transition to C++11 or a newer standard? That would remove the need for some of the Boost libraries. I noticed that there is already, at least partial, support for C++11, but the corresponding flags are not being set by CMake, at least not when I run it on my machine. 4) Regarding feature-completeness of the contributed code: Do you mind if the file format support is read-only? Thanks, David
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