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[Morten Kjeldgaard <mok@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I recently asked Eugene Krissinel about the distribution of mmdb. For  
the purposes of the various software distributions, we need a site  
where the pristine upstream tarball can be fetched. So while mmdb can  
still be gotten from Eugene's original site at the EBI:

 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~keb/cldoc/downloads/mmdb-([\d.]*)\.tar\.gz

he has now moved to become a group leader for CCP4, and so he will no  
longer maintain mmdb as a separate library:

> mmdb is part of ccp4 and is distributed with the Suite.
> As for a CCP4 core group leader, it would be strange for me
> to distribute it anyhow differently, and needless.

In other words, (as I read this), mmdb will now be maintained as a  
part of the CCP4 directory tree (now around 1Gb unpacked).

For this reason, I have established mmdb as a project on Launchpad.net  
and I suggest that we maintain it in common there. The project is  
owned by the structural biology team on LP (of which you are members)  
so you are able to update the bzr branch directly. In practice, it is  
quite easy to update when new CCP4 releases happen: I have a copy of  
CCP4 in a local DVCS, so I can very easily extract patches that can be  
applied to the LP project code branch. I do the same with

I have not yet uploaded a tarball, but since there were no significant  
changes to mmdb in the latest CCP4 version I don't find it urgently  
needed.

Cheers,
Morten

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