Hi again,
thanks for that additional explanation. Seems we have everything
we need and just need to make it working.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 12:37:05PM -0600, Elmar Pruesse wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> just some more background:
>
>
> > while the libarb package build from the arb source contains
> >
> > ARB.so ,
> >
> That's the perl module (imports as Bio:: IIRC). It allows accessing the
> database and remote controlling ARB. It's build with makemaker and can be
> finicky to build, plus it's dependent on perl ABI. ARB's macro recording
> feature writes Perl files, and a number of menu items are written in Perl
> (CSV import for example). In a perfect world, this would go into an ARB perl
> module. It has a namespace issue, though, as it occupies "Bio::". Since user
> recorded macros use that name space, it's not easy to fix that legacy issue.
>
>
> > libAWT.so and
> >
> That's the ARB Window Toolkit, so the high level components of the kit
> interfacing with the libARBDB for various things, e.g. Redo/Undo stack.
>
>
> > libWINDOW.so
> >
> That's the lower level part of the window toolkit sitting on top of motif
> and X11.
>
>
> Elmar
>
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