On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:50 AM, David van der Spoel
<sp...@xray.bmc.uu.se>wrote:
> On 2013-05-11 19:30, Noel O'Boyle wrote:
> > While at the ACS a month ago I met some power users of Open Babel and
> > was surprised to hear that they are still using the babel executable
> > instead of obabel.
> >
> >>From this I assume that only a small number of people have moved to
> > using obabel. In my mind, babel has been deprecated for some years...
>
> Keeping the two side by side just adds to the confusion. Is there any
> functionality in babel that is not in obabel, and can not be ported
> easily? That would really be the only reason to keep it.
>
Another possible solution would be to write a simple bash, perl or python
wrapper that transformed the syntax of babel to obabel. (And maybe also
warned or refuse to do the stuff that makes babel dangerous...).
Craig
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