Re: [OpenBabel-Devel] Bzip2 format support

2013-01-17 Thread David van der Spoel
On 2013-01-17 18:20, Kirill Okhotnikov wrote: Dear Babel Developers, I decided to implement bzip2 pack/unpack functionality in open-babel (#91 bzip2 compression/decompression). I'm new in openbabel, so I want to discuss some things. 1) I decided to go for boost iostreams library. They have

Re: [OpenBabel-Devel] Bzip2 format support

2013-01-17 Thread Ian Kirker
On 17 January 2013 18:23, David van der Spoel sp...@xray.bmc.uu.se wrote: I'm not sure that most developers would vote for an obligatory boost library. Isn't it quite hard to compile on uncommon platforms? Optional might be OK though, what do other people think? Speaking as a cluster

Re: [OpenBabel-Devel] Bzip2 format support

2013-01-17 Thread Andrew Dalke
On Jan 17, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Kirill Okhotnikov wrote: I decided to implement bzip2 pack/unpack functionality in open-babel (#91 bzip2 compression/decompression). What does the #91 mean? It's not the Open Babel bug id, and a search of the mailing list finds nothing matching bzip or bzip2. I do

Re: [OpenBabel-Devel] Bzip2 format support

2013-01-17 Thread Igor Filippov
I quite agree with Andrew that bzip2 support seems a rather less than urgent priority. However, if you'd like to compile for Windows here are the instructions for MinGW compiler - they work for 2.3.0, 2.3.1 and with one exception for 2.3.2: Compiling OpenBabel version 2.3.0: First make sure zlib,