Computational chemistry softwares orphaned in F20

[Jon]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Przemek Klosowski
<przemek.klosowski at nist.gov> wrote:
> On 05/16/2014 12:02 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 May 2014 08:26:23 -0300
> Henrique Junior <henriquecsj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  MOPAC7 is still in good shape despite the age.
>
> Also, I'm active in the field of computational chemistry myself.
>
> So is MOPAC7 viable for Fedora? it's been dormant since 2006; is there a
> better alternative that you (Susi) can recommend?
>
> Actually, there's something strange going on: Sourceforge advertises version
> 1.11 from 2006, but the Fedora package seems to include version 1.15 from
> 2009 which I am not seeing anywhere I looked, compiled by Carl Byington.
> What exactly is version 1.15?
>

Indeed, something strange:


$ cd /tmp

$ fedpkg clone mopac7
$ cd mopac7

$ spectool -g mopac7.spec
Getting http://www.uku.fi/~thassine/projects/download/current/mopac7-1.15.tar.gz
to ./mopac7-1.15.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found


The maintainer of the mopac7 package should fix the source0, or retire
the package.

Good luck,



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-Jon Disnard