[Debichem-devel] Updating openbabel

[Alex Mestiashvili]

Hi All,

The latest official release of openbabel is 2.4.1 which was released
more then a year ago ( on 2016-10-10). The versions in stable and
testing is 2.3.2 which is more then five years old.

Nevertheless the project seem to be active and there are a lot of
updates in the upstream's repository.
According to the CMakeLists.txt, the current beta? version is 2.4.90.

If for whatever reason upstream doesn't want to create releases, do you
think it is feasible to start uploading current snapshots? I can imagine
a version like 2.4.90~beta1~gitc4c05d7c for example.

Alternatively will it make sense to create openbabel-beta or
openbabel-git packages with more frequent updates?

Thank you,
Alex