Hmmm, I was sure that babel is just an alias/symlink to obabel. Is the difference between the two described somewhere?
Igor On 5/11/2013 1:30 PM, 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 and > I have made zero attempt to create plugin options compatible with it. > There simply aren't enough letters in the alphabet to register all the > option parameters necessary, as evidenced by the current LPMD plugin's > warning messages (I'll sort this out). > > So I propose we officially forget about registering option parameters > and add a message to babel along the lines of: > > """Deprecation notice: The babel executable you are running is > deprecated and may be removed in a future release of Open Babel. You > should used the obabel executable instead. obabel has more features > and works much better. For more information on using obabel, type > "obabel -H" """ > > Ok, so maybe we won't remove 'babel' in a future release (though I > recommend aliasing babel to obabel in a few years), but it's time to > start encouraging users to switch. The "works much better" line is > lame, but whatever it takes :-) > > - Noel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and > their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed > leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. > Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may > _______________________________________________ > OpenBabel-Devel mailing list > OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel > . > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
