Re: [openbabel-scripting] ANNOUNCE: Open Babel 2.0 Released

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

On Nov 26, 2005, at 9:47 PM, S Joshua Swamidass wrote:

> Looks good, but I found on small possible build/install bug. The
> python scripign libray compiles to:  openbabel.so isntead of
> _openbabel.so. Changing the name of the file fixes errors in loading
> the python module.

I'd be glad to get some feedback on building the openbabel-python  
module. If you have patches/suggestions for this, I'd really  
appreciate it. I'm familiar with the Perl packaging system, but the  
setup.py is still a bit out of my hands. Patches, complaints, etc.  
are quite welcome!

(I'm a Python newbie.)

In particular, I'd like to make sure the build works either for
* A user compiling from the openbabel source (i.e., setup.py should  
use ../../src/libopenbabel.*)
* A user building openbabel-python separately (i.e., using - 
lopenbabel and pkg-config)

My guess is that the scripting bindings will need faster releases  
than the main library for now. So #2 is important, but doesn't  
currently work.

Thanks,
-Geoff