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
> 
> 


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