[Debichem-devel] debichem, update suggest Jmol 2016 to a version of 2021

[Norwid Behrnd]

Hello Andrius,

I thank you for your reply.  After an initial read of the thread
indicated by you I read the listing below the address of

https://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/j/jmol/

as the intent to preserve the 2016-based version available; «better 
senior and reliably working, than in part new but as whole not ready
to use».  So far, I did not attempt to bundle any code as a .deb
package, nor coded a line in Java or JavaScript.  Therefore, I have
even less to say if Jerry James, apparently contributing to Jmol as a
rpm-package in Fedora

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/jmol

may be a helpful reference.  The currently used label there
(jmol-14.31.18-1) reads like since release of Fedora 33 (October
2020) they reduced the delay between their package repositories and
Jmol's own archives available on sourceforge.

Perhaps I come back to this (but it is not a promise).

With best regards,

Norwid

On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:12:47 +0200
Andrius Merkys <merkys at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Norwid,
> 
> On 2021-02-15 16:47, Norwid Behrnd wrote:
> > aiming to generate a short animation with the visualizer Jmol in
> > Linux Debian 10, I noticed that the version currently available in
> > the repositories is substantially more senior (14.6.4_2016.11.05),
> > than the one one may fetch from sourceforge (14.31.32; starting the
> > program, the splash screen there extends the copyright to current
> > 2021).  It is possible to fetch the archives from sourceforge's
> > dedicated web site
> > 
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/jmol/
> > 
> > and to run the program successfully.  Still, if there are no
> > technical reasons obstructing the following, I would like to suggest
> > to preview an update of the repositories about this program in the
> > course of the year.  
> Jmol in Debian is indeed lagging behind - Debian 11 will most likely be
> released with the same Jmol 2016 version. As far as I understand, this
> is due to the technical reasons, as Jmol is quite complicated to
> package. Recent attempts to update Jmol in Debian are summarized in this
> thread [1]. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719330
> 
> Best wishes,
> Andrius