Re: [Open Babel] Other ob tools

2020-03-12 Thread Francois Berenger
On 03/03/2020 17:46, Noel O'Boyle wrote: Well, I don't really agree. They could just add it to obabel in the first place and get the feedback from the development version. The problem is that people find it easier to add new executables, rather than spending a bit of time figuring out how to add

Re: [Open Babel] Other ob tools

2020-03-03 Thread Chris Swain via OpenBabel-discuss
Out of curiosity how many users install the development version? Cheers Chris > On 3 Mar 2020, at 08:46, Noel O'Boyle wrote: > > Well, I don't really agree. They could just add it to obabel in the first > place and get the feedback from the development version. The problem is that > people f

Re: [Open Babel] Other ob tools

2020-03-03 Thread Noel O'Boyle
Well, I don't really agree. They could just add it to obabel in the first place and get the feedback from the development version. The problem is that people find it easier to add new executables, rather than spending a bit of time figuring out how to add a plugin for obabel. Regards, - Noel On T

Re: [Open Babel] Other ob tools

2020-03-02 Thread Chris Swain via OpenBabel-discuss
Hi, It is clear that a number of the obtools have been incorporated into obabel, however I’m not sure they are all suitable for every file type. It is perhaps better to think of obtools as way to develop new tools that others can hopefully try out and provide feedback. Tools that are regularly

Re: [Open Babel] Other ob tools

2020-03-02 Thread Dmitri Maziuk via OpenBabel-discuss
On 3/2/2020 3:17 PM, Pedro Lacerda wrote: I'm just a humble user but agree to a single executable like git. Single executable like that is usually a front-end to other binaries, not a single binary that has all the functionality. What you really want to know is if (e.g.) `obabel --gen3d` real

Re: [Open Babel] Other ob tools

2020-03-02 Thread Pedro Lacerda
I'm just a humble user but agree to a single executable like git. Em seg, 2 de mar de 2020 17:12, Noel O'Boyle escreveu: > It's not a popular opinion, but I think we should have a single robust > executable. I've never used any of the others, and they are mostly untested. > > On Sat, 29 Feb 2020

Re: [Open Babel] Other ob tools

2020-03-02 Thread Noel O'Boyle
It's not a popular opinion, but I think we should have a single robust executable. I've never used any of the others, and they are mostly untested. On Sat, 29 Feb 2020, 18:21 Chris Swain via OpenBabel-discuss, < openbabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m working on an update to

[Open Babel] Other ob tools

2020-02-29 Thread Chris Swain via OpenBabel-discuss
Hi, I’m working on an update to iBabel, and was hoping to clear out the tools tab particularly as I’m not sure if some are now supported with OpenBabel 3.0 Looking through the directory of openbabel tools that are installed we have obconformer equiv to obabel --conformer obdistgen (generate