Daniel Russel wrote: >>> XML file. This makes it pretty useless in terms of human readability. >> Useful? > Well, I didn't quite mean useful, but actually, I didn't really mean for > the sentence to be there. I think direct XML dump of the objects is a > bad way to do a human editable file format since it makes it very hard > (to impossible) to ensure invariants such as the hierarchies being > right, bonds being right etc.
I agree - it wasn't clear to me from your original email though! Just wanted to clarify that.
> Just out of curiousity, what platforms require work to get boost working > (no rpms or prebuild installs)? Or is it just a matter on having not yet > installed macports or the full boost binaries on something?
I think it's just our Suns and the Windows builds.
> We should probably start assembling such instructions with the > installation instructions (for example where to get macports or fink for > macs).
It's certainly straightforward to insert such instructions into the relevant section of the manual.
Ben