Fink: coot and coot-pre alternate packages now available

Dear OS X Coot users:

I've updated coot to use a stand-alone refmac, as well as the CCP4 open-source libraries, so all dependencies on proprietary parts of CCP4 should no longer be present.

If you want a recent pre-release, just install "coot".  If it isn't recent enough, either email me, or just grab a pre-compiled nightly version.



You can also do it yourself, if you are in a hurry, just by editing the file

/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/coot.info, changing line 3 (the Revision number) and the corresponding checksum (line 8).


The stand-alone packages will continue to be based upon automatic nightly builds, available here:
http://scottlab.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/Stand-Alone_Coot

or here:  http://psbmini.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/coot/?C=M;O=D


Please let me know if any of these are problematic.

The future of Fink's CCP4 package

Now that CCP4 plans to distribute 64-bit binaries for OS X, and has its own update system, the need for a fink package of CCP4 seems less compelling.  I am thinking of creating some sort of "system-ccp4" fink placeholder, and might augment that with a version of the ccp4_setup.xsh files that the user can optionally install.

Any objections?

Coot 0.7.1 stable is now available

The OS X fink and pre-build Coot packages for Coot 0.7.1 are now available.

Fairly recently, I created a fink package for rdkit, which coot now depends upon (and makes good use of).

See further details here.

Some X-ray data from Jan 1st, 2013

Here is how I started the new year:

A permanent invitation to TSA gate rape.