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[Noel O'B. <no...@ca...>]

It's great to get the release out. It's both an exciting and nervous
time, although we should release that a Python parser for comp chem is a
pretty niche market so it's not like we will be overwhelmed with
responses.

cclib is up on SF, Freshmeat and PyPI. I've also emailed GaussSum users
and PyMol users, so we'll see what happens. As we discussed, we'll leave
the CCL list alone until the final 0.5 release.

I've adapted ccget to accept multiple filenames - it's a good way of
testing whether a file is parsed correctly. I tried it on a pile of
GAMESS outputs from a colleague here. It turns out that he uses an older
version of GAMESS so it broke. The usage is something like (I've just
realised that I need to update the usage instructions that ccget prints
out):
	ccget *.log
or if you want to look at a particular attribute(s):
	ccget homos *.log

We need to put in place a system for regression tests for future
breakings of the parser. We already need to include some of the AOMIX
stuff.

I decided not to include the data files in the release - after all, they
are mainly for development and testing purposes. This frees us from
worrying too much about the size of log files. Instead we will include
some example files that the tutorial will work through. I think this
makes more sense.

Regards,
  Noel