[Avogadro-devel] Open Babel 2.2 required?

[Geoffrey H. <ge...@ge...>]

When we were developing Avogadro 0.1, we required the SVN version of  
OB-2.1.

Now I'm wondering if we're at a point where we should require the SVN  
version of OB-2.2 to build Avogadro. For example, the #define  
OBPatched is really about freezing atoms to the force field, and  
that's in the SVN trunk of Open Babel.

Similarly, more changes are going in the force field engines, and I  
could really use a construct in version 2.2 which lets me list all  
the force fields easily. (It even saves them to a std::vector so I  
can construct the pop-up menu.)

Granted, I don't think version 2.2 has received enough testing yet --  
some of the bugs in the Avogadro bug tracker are really Open Babel  
bugs. But to me, this seems like a good idea.

Thoughts? Complaints?

Cheers,
-Geoff