Hi,

On Wednesday, 30 June 2010 at 16:42, Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've written an 3D alignment class that performs Kabsch alignment of
> two 3D structures (whose atoms are in the same order). It can handle
> symmetry and has the option to only align certain atoms (typically
> non-H atoms). It can also be used to align a set of arbitary vectors.
> 
> The thing is...it has a dependency on Tim's symmetry code which uses
> bliss. bliss is GPLv2 and available from
> http://www.tcs.hut.fi/Software/bliss/. My code also has a dependency
> on Eigen2.
> 
> Now, is it okay to dump bliss into the include directory? This will,
> in any case, be a requirement for merging Tim's new symmetry code
> which I think can how handle 95% of tricky symmetry cases, and is
> probably ready to merge.

Speaking from a Fedora package maintainer point of view, I'm against
bundling any separately available code. Please don't bundle it without
adding support for building against a system-wide bliss installation.

See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
for complete justification why.

> How about Eigen2? Should I just optionally compile?

Same as above.

Regards,
Dominik

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