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[Tim Fenn <fenn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:49:49 -0800
Tim Fenn <fenn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:09:19 +0100
> Morten Kjeldgaard <mok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > There are some significant recent changes on the MMDB code. All
> > patches from the Coot dependencies distribution (1.23.2) have now
> > been merged into the launchpad MMDB project, and the code was
> > released as version 1.23.2.1. In addition, there are some quite
> > significant bug-fixes. Most are latent bugs, where variables are
> > initialized inside a conditional statement, but referenced outside.
> > These bugs will hit only if the conditional is not fullfilled (which
> > may be never). The most serious bug prevents the rwbrook Fortran
> > bindings from ever dealing with atomic displacement tensors in
> > fractional form, see [0].
> > 
> 
> Ah, OK - I was wondering about the odd versioning there.  Which brings
> up another point: we're following upstream, but adding fixes/edits to
> the code - maybe we should stick with the upstream version
> numbering/files and include our changes as a patch set that can be
> applied before building, to avoid confusion and potential
> conflicts/problems?  The patches could be sent upstream.  Or we could
> have our own, independent naming/versioning scheme, (like what was
> done with gpp4 - for example, gmmdb and gssm or something) - that way
> people who download the code know/realize its not the "official" ccp4
> stuff.
> 

We also mentioned following the CCP4 numbering scheme, e.g. it appears
that ccp4 6.1.24 is the latest release.  Is the plan to match that with
the gpp4/mmdb/ssm versioning?

-Tim

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