Computational chemistry softwares orphaned in F20

Henrique Junior henriquecsj at gmail.com
Tue May 20 14:56:06 UTC 2014


2014-05-20 6:35 GMT-03:00 Susi Lehtola <jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org>:

> On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:00:52 -0300
> Henrique Junior <henriquecsj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2014-05-19 4:20 GMT-03:00 Susi Lehtola <jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org>:
> > > mopac7 is orphan in F20 and rawhide, and probably will be retired(?)
> > >
> > MOPAC7 is still a very important software, it would be a shame to lose it
> > in our repos.
> > Does anyone know something about MOPAC7.1[1]?
>
> It might be, but from what I understand on computational chemistry
> discussion forums, there are hundreds of known bugs in MOPAC7 which
> won't be fixed, because the developers have since switched to a
> non-free licensing approach.
>
> Packages that lack a maintained upstream are often somewhat problematic.
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I was thinking about a Chemistry Spin (or Remix), Anyone interested? (.ks
attached)

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*Henrique C. S. Junior*
QuĂ­mica Industrial - UFRRJ
Centro de Processamento de Dados - PMP
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