Re: [Open Babel] Re: obgrep and CML

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

On May 31, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Simon Tyrrell wrote:

> Things like passing the file to the dll to ask "Is this
> file what you can handle?", reading, writing, etc.

Yes. Ideally, adding a new file format should not involve editing four 
files in addition to the Makefile and the new source code itself!

And improvements to the class hierarchy like this are definitely a 
winning situation, both for us internally, and to programs on top of 
Open Babel.

-Geoff