[Debichem-devel] Re: libopenbabel transition (FYI)

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:49:20PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote:
> On 4/15/07, LI Daobing <lidaobing at gmail.com> wrote:
> >openbabel 2.1.0 will ship libopenbabel2 instead of libopenbabel1, 

as I wrote, this is being discussed, and the final word hasn't been
spoken.

> >but libopenbabel2 and libopenbabel1 can't live together because both
> >of them contain following files[1]. so libopenbabel2 will conflicts
> >with or override libopenbabel1.
> >
> >[1]
> >$ dpkg -L libopenbabel1 | grep /usr/lib/openbabel | head
> >/usr/lib/openbabel
> >/usr/lib/openbabel/alchemyformat.a
> >/usr/lib/openbabel/alchemyformat.la
> >/usr/lib/openbabel/alchemyformat.so
> >/usr/lib/openbabel/amberformat.a
> >/usr/lib/openbabel/amberformat.la
> >/usr/lib/openbabel/amberformat.so
> >/usr/lib/openbabel/APIInterface.a
> >/usr/lib/openbabel/APIInterface.la
> >/usr/lib/openbabel/APIInterface.so
> >

Right, that's the second issue.  I suggested upstream uses a versioned
directory like /usr/lib/openbabel/2.1/ for the format plugins.

But again, discussion is ongoing.  We shouldn't rush this.


Michael