On Friday, 13 June 2008 at 06:57, Henrique LonelySpooky Junior wrote: > Em Sex, 2008-06-13 às 00:30 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams escreveu: > > On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 00:26 -0300, Henrique Junior wrote: > > > Friends, > > > > > > I've using Fedora as my main distro for a while now (FC 3) and here in > > > Brazil, where I study Chemical Engineering, I started to use the > > > excellent XDrawChem software, for drawing chemical structures and > > > diagrams of reactions. I discovered, however, that the development of > > > the program is freezed since November of 2005 [1] and the activities > > > in the discutions lists had ceased a long time ago. > > > The future of this software seems uncertain and, until this point, > > > poor promising, since improvements are not being made and it's > > > outdated in comparison of what expect from a system that cares about > > > constant evolution. > > > After some research and tests, I found the BkChem [2], that it is > > > similar in functions, but it's uninterruptedly being developed and > > > that, in fact, it had shown better results compared to the XdrawChem > > > could obtain at the moment. The structures are more clear, the methods > > > of drawing more refined and the plugins and tools already are compared > > > with the ones that the XDrawChem had. The BkChem is distribuited under > > > GPL and seems to be a good (and promising) substitute to the deceased > > > XdrawChem. > > > > > > [1] - http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/ > > > [2] - http://bkchem.zirael.org/ > > > > Thanks for showing an interest! > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join > > Hi, Ignacio > I'm not shure to have the necessary skills to do that... =( If you're willing to learn, I'm sure there are some seasoned Fedora contributors that will help you (myself included). Why don't you try creating a package of BkChem and submitting it for review? Regards, R. PS. Please do not top-reply. I've fixed the reply order for this mail. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann Livna http://rpm.livna.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
