Well, I am getting so senile I didn't even remember that something other than the plug-ins depended on gfortran until I tried to make a lite one. I still might, because it would be kind of cool to have one that uses the aqua-tk interface…
On Jul 31, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: > Bill, > > Thanks for this explanation - with this excellent info it only seems logical > to include scipy and gcc to the package, no need to make a lite version, as > far as I am concerned. Sorry for the noise :) > > - Koen. > > > On Jul 31, 2011, at 7:21 PM, William G. Scott wrote: > >> Dear Koen et al: >> >> The reason for the inclusion of scipy it to support two pymol plugins: APBS >> (an electrostatics program that is quite popular amongst structural >> molecular biologists) and a py-nmr plugin (of use to NMR spectroscopists). >> There may be other reasons as well that I am not aware of. >> >> Please note, even if the plugins that I and other maintainers in this >> package's history were removed, and the dependency upon scipy, there would >> STILL be a required dependency on gcc46 (or some form of gfortran) because >> of the python gui, i.e., the tkinter python megawidgets has a dependency >> upon BLT (a tcltk widget), and BLT has a dependency upon a fortran >> component. Omitting the fortran components from BLT still allows it to >> compile, but it is not the fully-enabled BLT required by some other packages. >> >> So we are doomed, unless we want to create a separate set of dependencies >> for a slimmed-down pymol. I am willing to do this, but this does come with >> some overhead. >> >> Bill >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
