Re: [AMBER-Developers] simplified install process (e.g: no AMBERHOME, no sourcing amber.sh)

From: Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 21:07:17 -0500

+1 - Python is a cancer these days!

> On Feb 11, 2017, at 17:59, Scott Brozell <sbrozell.rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:50:54AM -0500, Hai Nguyen wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:34 AM, David Case <david.case.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017, Hai Nguyen wrote:
>>>
>>>> PS2: "NEW" won't work with --skip-python option (there is no Python code
>>>> to wrap "nab" program to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
>>>
>>> Can't you use a shell script instead?....dac
>>>
>> I do no want to support various shell types (like amber.sh, amber.csh).
>>
>> But If I try hard, I can make "NEW" work with "--skip-python" by trying
>> various python version.
>> However, it's hard to install python2.4 nowadays so I don't have any to
>> test my change.
>
> I don't know the details here, but i strongly prefer to have an
> installation process that does not need python; i might settle for
> a process that will work with any python.
>
> For Dock 6.9 I'll be resynchronizing Dock and AmberTools. Dock uses
> a kernel of Ambertools that includes antechamber et al., sff, tleap,
> and maybe (probably not) nab. Again the details are as yet unknown,
> but all four of those are not python programs, and i do
> not want Dock users to have to deal with python.
>
> If you need help supporting two unix shells (OMG 2 !) then i can help.
>
> thanks,
> scott
>
>
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