On 09/27/2016 05:27 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Hi, > > I am hereby orphaning the avogadro package (and am going to hit the > corresponding button in pkgdb after sending this message). > > Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor for chemistry. It can be used both as a > standalone application and as a library. The latter is notably used by Kalzium, > the KDE periodic table (which is part of kdeedu), for its molecule viewer. > > I originally picked up this package because it is a dependency of Kalzium, which > I was comaintaining at the time. Unfortunately, considering that: > * I never really used the standalone Avogadro application, > * I did not even use the Kalzium molecule viewer enough to be familiar with it, > * I do not even comaintain Kalzium anymore, and > * I do not have time to keep up with new upstream releases of Avogadro, > I have come to the conclusion that I am not the right person to maintain this > package. > > The Rawhide package of Avogadro is at version 1.1.1. Upstream has an 1.2.0 > release on SourceForge: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/avogadro/files/avogadro/1.2.0/ > (The release is unfortunately NOT announced on the avogadro.cc site.) The new > maintainer will likely want to import the new version. However, he/she should > also ensure that Kalzium still keeps working with the updated library. (That is > the issue with this being both an application and a library.) > > WARNING: The Avogadro project also has something called "Avogadro2". Kalzium is > NOT compatible with Avogadro2 at this time. I have also been told that the > Avogadro2 standalone application is also still missing features from Avogadro > (1). So it is NOT a good idea to replace Avogadro with Avogadro2. (If you want > Avogadro2 in Fedora, please submit a separate review request for it.) You have > been warned. > > Thank you for your understanding, > Kevin Kofler > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > I'm going to maintain Avogadro. -- --- Antonio Trande mailto: sagitter 'at' fedoraproject 'dot' org http://fedoraos.wordpress.com/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sagitter GPG Key: 0x6CE6D08A Check on https://keys.fedoraproject.org/
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