Re: [Cdk-devel] CDK command line application

[Egon W. <ego...@gm...>]

Hej Vincent,

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Vincent Le Guilloux
<vin...@gm...> wrote:
>> Please send an email to cdk-devel announcing yourself as picking up
>> the maintainer task of the command line utilities, and let me know how
>> I can assist you in getting started (which can also go via the
>> cdk-devel mailing list).
>
> I've a lot of question indeed... Lets start with basic ones:
>
> - Are these tools intended to be bundled with the CDK library itself, or
> should they be part of a distinct project with an external JAR file which
> only includes these tools? What about subversion / git (which I don't know)
> access ?

Within the CDK project, there are a few projects, the CDK library
being one. The CLI tools would be an add-on project. I guess it
depends on the distribution whether it will have one jar, or many, but
I can imagine that to bootstrap a community, a single jar might be a
good starting point.

In the past I used SH scripts wrapping around the jar(s), so that it
would nicely integrate on a POSIX system... they should be around
somewhere... I think in the SVN of Debian actually... on Alioth... we
could dig them up...

BTW, do you want git or subversion?

> - As I'm a bit confused with all existing CDK version, tags, truncs... which
> version of the CDK should be used build these tools?

Depends... how will you want to distribute? Will you release a single
package with all? Do you want to make Debian/Ubuntu packages (that
would require CDK 1.0.2)?

> - What if I want to use 2D depiction ? I'm usually working with nightly
> builds (http://pele.farmbio.uu.se/nightly/),

Then I'd go for CDK 1.3.x + the CDK-JChemPaint patches. The latter you
can download as two single jars, and just put in your classpath.

> and I know that depiction code is not in the official CDK release...

Yeah, yeah... working on it, working on it... :) if people like to
help, please let me know... there are many smaller, not too difficult
things to do... quite a few junior-job level things to do. (writing
some unit tests, JavaDoc, port patches from the JChemPaint 3.x
applet...)

Egon


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