Dear Babel Developers,
I decided to implement bzip2 pack/unpack functionality in open-babel
(#91 bzip2 compression/decompression).
I'm new in openbabel, so I want to discuss some things.
1) I decided to go for boost iostreams library. They have compressed
gzip/bzip2 support in similar way, lik
On 2013-01-17 18:20, Kirill Okhotnikov wrote:
> Dear Babel Developers,
>
> I decided to implement bzip2 pack/unpack functionality in open-babel
> (#91 bzip2 compression/decompression).
>
> I'm new in openbabel, so I want to discuss some things.
>
> 1) I decided to go for boost iostreams library. Th
On 17 January 2013 18:23, David van der Spoel wrote:
> I'm not sure that most developers would vote for an obligatory boost
> library. Isn't it quite hard to compile on uncommon platforms?
>
> Optional might be OK though, what do other people think?
Speaking as a cluster software stack maintaine
On Jan 17, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Kirill Okhotnikov wrote:
> I decided to implement bzip2 pack/unpack functionality in open-babel
> (#91 bzip2 compression/decompression).
What does the "#91" mean? It's not the Open Babel bug id, and a search
of the mailing list finds nothing matching "bzip" or "bzip2"
I quite agree with Andrew that bzip2 support seems a rather less than
urgent priority.
However, if you'd like to compile for Windows here are the instructions
for MinGW compiler - they work for 2.3.0, 2.3.1 and with one exception
for 2.3.2:
Compiling OpenBabel version 2.3.0: First make sure zlib,
On 17/01/2013 17:20, Kirill Okhotnikov wrote:
> Dear Babel Developers,
>
> I decided to implement bzip2 pack/unpack functionality in open-babel
> (#91 bzip2 compression/decompression).
>
> I'm new in openbabel, so I want to discuss some things.
>
> 1) I decided to go for boost iostreams library. Th
