Every year, I try to write up a "State of the Project" message in January. How about Feb. 20th? :-)
Last year, we got out 3 releases of 2.2.x, we broke the 120,000 downloads mark, and 30+ projects. We also made great progress on the 2.3 release at the SVN trunk. What's currently on the development trunk will be a great 2.3 release. It has improved aromaticity assignment (Craig), better stereo analysis (Tim and Noel), 2D depiction (Chris), and more. Some of this work will form the basis of an Open Babel publication, intended to be submitted this spring. Thanks to the new CMake build system, we also have regular builds and automated testing on multiple platforms and compilers: http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=Open%20Babel We have also been discussing the future of Open Babel 3, including a "MolCore" project which will form the basis of OB3 through a collaboration with Greg Landrum of RDKit. MoleCore will be a BSD-licensed library handling basic chemical/molecular representation infrastructure -- both RDKit and OpenBabel will add their own functionality on top. https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/molcore/ I'd like to get OB 2.3 released this spring. To get this done, I'm pushing to fix bugs from the bug tracker, trying to get all tests passing on all platforms with CDash, and will be releasing bi-weekly beta snapshots like I did with 2.1.x and 2.2.x. I think 2010 is shaping up to be a great year for Open Babel. If you have comments, suggestions, critiques, etc., please reply to the list. Cheers, -Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
