[Chimera-users] Please unbundle libRMF

[Conrad Huang]

Chimera includes libRMF.so in its own set of files.  It makes no attempt 
at installing it anywhere else.  Why would your programs find the one 
under Chimera?

Conrad

On 6/30/2018 11:35 AM, Yuri wrote:
> Chimera installs lib/libRMF.so, and UCSF IMP also installs 
> lib/libRMF.so, so that they can't be used together, despite the claim 
> that "IMP can also be used from the Chimera 
> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/> molecular modeling system" (see 
> https://integrativemodeling.org/).
> 
> 
> Please unbundle libRMF (https://github.com/salilab/rmf), and use an 
> external package for it.
> 
> 
> Also imagine if some other software used libRMF too, how can they all be 
> installed together? Bundling is a mess. Please never bundle software 
> packages because this only causes problems down the road.
> 
> 
> I also asked IMP to unbundle libRMF.so: 
> https://github.com/salilab/imp/issues/1005
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yuri
> 
> 
> 
> 
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