Re: CCL:babel development?

[Geoff Hutchison <hutchisn.,at,.chem.nwu.edu>]

 On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Dr. Richard Wood wrote:
 > David van der Spoel wrote:
 >> Is anybody still actively developing/maintaining babel? The latest
 version
 >> (1.6) seems to be from 1996.
 Yes and no. I asked a very similar question a few months ago. Both Matt
 Stahl and Pat Walters are assisting on a GPL'ed library called OELib, that
 is essentially based on Babel. Matt said that at some point OELib should
 probably be released as "Babel 2.0." At one point, there was a webpage
 at
 <http://www.eyesopen.com/oelib/>;
 I use OELib in some of my work and it's pretty good and evolving
 relatively quickly. Hopefully it will soon have all the Babel translators
 and then some.
 > This is an interesting question, because Babel is SUPPOSED to be able to
 read
 > CHARMM files as input, yet it doesn't.
 As someone who's written some file translators, it's hard to know what the
 problem might be without example files.
 Cheers,
 --
 -Geoff Hutchison
 Northwestern Chemistry