The testing of RasMol 2.7.5 has gone well so far, and we intend to make it
the default release. Except for a few remaining warning messages, the
problems reported during testing have been resolved.
The current best releases are:
Sourcekit:
http://downloads.sf.net/openrasmol/rasmol-2.7.5-23Jul09.tar.gz
MS Windows Installer
http://downloads.sf.net/openrasmol/RasWin_2_7_5_Install_24Jul09.exe
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel i386 install kit
http://downloads.sf.net/openrasmol/RasMol_2_7_5_i386_OSX_24Jul09.tar.gz
Slackware Linux 12 i686 install kit
http://downloads.sf.net/openrasmol/RasMol_2_7_5_i686_Slackware_24Jul09.tar.gz
Mac OS X 10.3.9 PPC install kit
http://downloads.sf.net/openrasmol/RasMol_2_7_5_PPC_OSX_24Jul09.tar.gz
The unix-style install kits are should be unpacked and the
rasmol_install.sh installation script should be run. Do
rasmol_install.sh --help to see the options.
This release is based on RasMol 2.7.4.2, the final reference release for
the 2.7.4 series.
The changes made between the 2.7.5 release candidate release of 17 July
2009 and the formal release on 23 July 2009 were:
* Correction to the support for core CIF data file loads that was
disabled in the move to CBFlib in place of the internal CIF support.
* Correction to the CCP4 map read logic in the case of symmetry lines.
Thanks to Marian Szebenyi for finding this bug.
* Clarification to the install instructions for 64-bit unix systems.
Thanks to Marian Szebenyi and Mark Diekhans for pointing out the lack of
clarity.
The major changes in RasMol 2.7.5 are:
* Support for SBEVSL movie commands.
* Support for Lee-Richards surface approximation by contouring
pseudo-Gaussian electron densities.
* Selection of atoms by proximity to map contours
* Coloring of maps by the colors of neighboring atoms
* Significant improvements to the GTK version by Teemu Ikonen
The SVN at http://sf.net/projects/openrasmol should be consulted for
details of the code changes. All rasmol source repositories have been
updated. If you are building from source, be sure to download a
current CBFlib 0.8.1 kit to address the problem in loading core
CIF data files.
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Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121
Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769
+1-631-244-3035
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