Re: [Rdkit-devel] Beta of Q2 2011 Release Available

[Gianluca S. <gi...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Greg Landrum <gre...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Gianluca,
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Gianluca Sforna <gi...@gm...> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Greg Landrum <gre...@gm...> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Gianluca Sforna <gi...@gm...> wrote:
>>>> I just tried to build the beta into RPM packages; I've read that inchi
>>>> support is optional, so I guess there is a new cmake switch to trigger
>>>> it. However, all py* tests are now failing because "from inchi import
>>>> *" gives an ImportError.
>>>
>>> That's defniitely not what's supposed to happen (and isn't what
>>> happens for me when doing the standard in-tree install).
>>
>> Now I see. The problem is that I'd need some help from your side to
>> also support some alternate standards, otherwise building proper
>> packages for end users is increasingly painful.
>
> Sorry that we created the problem, we will get it fixed. The packaging
> work that you're doing is really valuable and I certainly don't want
> to make it either more difficult or complex. I will start to make a
> habit of doing an out-of-source build to make sure things like this
> are less likely to happen again.

Thanks Greg, I really appreciate this.
To help you avoid adding burden to development, I was thinking about
starting a buildbot instance somewhere so compilation and tests could
be run regularly with both methods. Did you ever consider such a
setup?


>
> It would be great if you could do that; otherwise Eddie and I will get
> something put together today.

I'm having a look at it right now

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