Re: [cclib-devel] Re: Progress towards release

[Adam T. <a-t...@st...>]

> Well, I wouldn't be too worried about it. A stable release (1.0) is  
> one
> thing. A 0.5 or less release is another. We can simply not mention the
> other parsers. Also, I do not think that maintaining branches is a fun
> task. It *is* possible though, and with the tests that we have, we can
> ensure that it still works.

Ok, that's fine. I suspect there aren't going to be many user of  
cclib immediately.

> Yeah, 500 reads and no answers - still waiting.

That's a lot. I'm surprised nobody has answered yet.

> So I did I, but there was a question mark in front of the √  
> in the
> cclib wiki. Anyway I've looked in this, and into filling the last few
> checkboxes for GAMESS and Gaussian.

Oh yeah. I had added that when I noticed that the aonames didn't fit  
our naming scheme (lowercase u/g). I think it's ok.

> Yeah, real life - it does get in the way. I will have some time in the
> evenings next week and would like to get an initial release put  
> together
> and sent off sometime that week. We probably need some more man  
> pages on
> the wiki showing how to use cclib: the parser and the analysers.

I have added a page about using the methods, but it's not too detailed.

> Wait a second, I was thinking of exactly the same thing! I was  
> thinking
> of a method of the Logfile, that either returns an instance of the
> appropriate parser or returns None.

Sounds good.

Adam