Re: [OpenBabel-Devel] Confab

2013-06-06 Thread Geoffrey Hutchison
Hi Noel, Sorry for the long delay. I've started reviewing the confab branch. and calcrmsd executables in there, but I plan to remove them as they are replaced by the --confab op and -oconfabreport format. I think we definitely need a rmsd command-line tool. There seems to be an unmet need

Re: [OpenBabel-Devel] Confab

2013-06-06 Thread Noel O'Boyle
I don't disagree about having a calcrmsd, but the executable provided as part of confab is not an all-purpose RMSD calculator. It's pretty specific for the Confab output, hence the 'rename' to confabreport format. I would argue for a separate calcrmsd executable that covered the common use cases

Re: [OpenBabel-Devel] Confab

2013-06-06 Thread Geoffrey Hutchison
I would argue for a separate calcrmsd executable that covered the common use cases (first against rest, all-against-all, include hydrogens, include symmetry, perform least-squares alignment). As someone reminded me, there's tools/obrms.cpp now. (Maybe we should rename to obrmsd.cpp). That