[sdpd] Re: Re-using software pieces

[L.M.D.Cranswick... @dl.ac.uk (L. Cranswick)]

> At the origin, the CCP14 distributed only executables. 
> Fortunately, on can find some sources here and there now.
> The biggest piece of sources is in Fortran code inside the
> CCSL (Cambridge Crystallography Subroutine Library -
> at ILL - http://193.49.43.3/dif/ccsl/welcome.html) but this
> is not enough. There is almost nothing available in Visual C++
> code for instance, which would show how to implement
> a good GUI in MS Windows (the Rasmol code was

At present the CCP14 will accept anything that authors will 
allow it to mirror, executables, source code, etc.
This is totally up to the owners of the programs
and source code.

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One of the main problems now days seems to be not
what crystallographers would like to give away - but
what their laboratory/organisation policies are 
in this regard.

This is also complicated for a growing number of 
crystallographers by the lack of visible long term career 
path due to the contract/short termism(sp?) situation in 
many research laboratories.  Hard to consistently develop
code for the community if you are not sure where
your next pay cheque is coming from.

Lachlan.

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Lachlan M. D. Cranswick

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