I'm up for helping a bit. I do understand the setup.py system, and have a
few packages already on pypi.
But I'll need some help figuring out how the current system works. Is there
someone already familiar with this that could help do this?
S Joshua Swamidass
http://swami.wustl.edu/
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Geoffrey Hutchison <
geoff.hutchi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. Possibly this could be detected by seeing what libraries are
> installed in the openbabel install
>
> Indeed. Many of these things should already be set in the babelconfig.h
> header, which should be trivially parseable by Python. If something is
> missing, let me know and I can change CMake to add the needed info to
> babelconfig.h for this purpose.
>
> Moreover, most of this info should also be accessible in the
> openbabel-2.0.pc for pkg-config, and the CMake module installed for Open
> Babel.
>
> > 2. More reliably, openbabel could install a comand to the install bin
> that (perhaps named openbabel-config) that provides all this information
> (like include dir, lib dir, compile options, etc) as text to stdout. This
> is the mechanism that python uses for its self (with python-config).
>
> Meh. We already install a CMake module and a pkg-config module, plus
> babelconfig.h. It's certainly easy to write such a script, but I guess my
> question is "how many of these things do we need?"
>
> > 3. Have setup.py give clean information about why it fails if it can't
> get info (e.g. need to upgrade openbabel before install, etc.)
>
> This would be an extremely welcome improvement.
>
> > What do you think?
>
> Sounds great. Are you volunteering? ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> -Geoff
>
>
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