[ghemical-devel] Compilation Errors / Autoconf Check

[Tommi Hassinen]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Donald Ephraim Curtis wrote:

> I could probably mess with the configure script and try to give you a patch
> where make doesn't run pkg-config itself.  If i get some time.
>
> Is there any chance you're going to do away with using gnome libraries and go
> strictly gtk2?  I guess i don't know enough details about the toolkits to
> understand why you're using gnome.

My first objective is to get the BEFORE_BONOBO_BRANCH version out. It is
split into separate mopac7/openbabel/libghemical libraries, and contains a
lot better GUI (no more separate QM/MM modes). It will be still a gnome-1
program, and after a (few?) bugfix rounds could become a stable v2.00.

Then, there are options. One could proceed with the HEAD version that
uses bonobo components. As an idea it sounds great, but a year ago whan
I wrote the initial version it was a problem that the documentation about
bonobo programs was really limited in my opinion. And also glade did not
support bonobo objects then, I don't know the current situation. Then an
another option could be to convert the v2.00 into a gtk2 program (if there
seems to be no advantage in gnome2 libs). I see that gtk2 has advantage of
being much easier to port than gnome2.

Regards,

	Tommi