[cctbxbb] Debian Package

[Radostan Riedel]

On Thu, 30. Aug 09:26, Nathaniel Echols wrote:
> It is indeed an unfortunate situation, but historically* this was
> necessary because the license of the CCP4 libraries was ambiguous
> and/or unacceptable, and we were stuck using an obsolete version for a
> time.  This has been resolved (the libraries are now LGPL, I believe),
> but Ralf maintained a separate source tree because (among other
> reasons) he couldn't convince the CCP4 maintainers to accept all of
> his patches.  So the libraries we distribute are not necessarily the
> same as what you'd be installing system-wide.  (I do not actually know
> what the changes are, but I will ask Ralf.)
> 
> Note that we also use the ccp4 libraries in SOLVE/RESOLVE, which is
> part of Phenix, and I suspect that some of the customizations are for
> that purpose, not CCTBX directly.
OK but I was talking in general not only about ccp4. cctbx is distributing a lot
of bundled libraries which are not maintained by this project: boost, scons, antlr3c,
ann, cbflib, mmdb, clipper, gl2ps.