On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Radostan Riedel
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.
This is because we want people to be able to install and use CCTBX with minimal fuss, instead of wasting days trying to put together all of the third-party libraries and dealing with the inevitable compile-and-link problems. (Even for the libraries like Boost or SCons that are likely to be available on Linux distributions, there is no guarantee that the version installed by "apt-get" et al. will actually be compatible with our code.) Most users don't like dealing with this - and it is a huge barrier to adoption. At any rate, there's no requirement that these packages be distributed with CCTBX (and they're not part of the SVN repository on SF); however, the binary bundles would be absolutely useless without them. -Nat