[ghemical-devel] mopac7 package release candidate 1

[Michael Banck]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:28:25PM +0200, Tommi Hassinen wrote:
> To drive it ahead I placed a release candidate #1 for the mopac7 package
> for download here:
> 
> 	http://www.uku.fi/~thassine/tmp/mopac7-1.0_rc1_20041109.tgz

I'll check that out ASAP.

> So it is supposed to create both static and shared libmopac7 libraries ;
> "make install" should install the following:
> 
> libraries:	<prefix>/lib/libmopac7.a
> 		<prefix>/lib/libmopac7.la
> 		<prefix>/lib/libmopac7.so
> 		<prefix>/lib/libmopac7.so.0
> 		<prefix>/lib/libmopac7.so.0.0.0

Well, I'm not sure, but what about dropping the "7" in Mopac? What's it
actually used for? Historic reasons? It's a bit confusing as I'd expect
such a number on a library to correlate with the 7th binary-incompatible
interface change. Just suggesting it before it's too late :)
 
Another suggestion would be to move all the source files into a lib/
subdir (or a src/ subdir, if there are any which are not part of the
lib), so that the main directory is less cluttered.


Michael