Dear Greg, Fair enough;). Indeed this is quite complex and a bit separate from the "core" of RDKit's purpose. Nevertheless, I'm sure quite a few people would appreciate such a build. Best regards, Michal
On 28 August 2014 15:37, Greg Landrum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, August 28, 2014, Michal Krompiec <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Dear Jan, Thanks a lot. It remains a painstaking DIY job stil then. >> >> Greg: would it be possible to add the binary of the cartridge >> (compiled with, say, the latest PostgreSQL) to the binary Win32 >> distribution? > > > It's definitely possible. The better question is how likely it is. ;-) > > It's probably already clear that I don't spend a lot of time using the RDKit > under Windows. Aside from some automated builds that we do at work (only > parts of the code), I tend to really only build it in Windows while > preparing a release. Adding an additional component to the Windows build > adds an additional testing requirement and complication to the release > process. Due to the way Windows licensing works, I can't set up several VMs > to make this easy/automateable, so it requires some effort. Doing this for > something that I personally would never use under Windows (the cartridge) > and where effective testing would be tricky makes me nervous. It gets more > complicated when you factor in the matrix of things that would need to be > tested: Win32 or Win64? Is it really ok to only support the latest version > of PostgreSQL or are people going to want older versions too? etc. > > I will try to find some time before the next release to see how feasible > this is, but I'm not going to make any promises. > > -greg > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Rdkit-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss
