Avogadro 0.2 Released Today

Posted by Marcus D. Hanwell on

Today we released Avogadro 0.2 which features many improvements since the 0.1 release. It has lots of the new features I worked on during my Google Summer of Code project along with some great work by other contributors such as the bond centric manipulation tool coded by Shahzad Ali, Ross Braithwaite and James Bunt.

Geoffrey Hutchison announced the release earlier today, on what I have been informed is mole day due to the date format used in the US - 10/23 corresponding to the 10^23 of Avogadro's number. So today seemed like an even more fortuitous time to make a release of Avogadro!

Today also marked my first commit to the Gentoo repository in quite some time to add this release to Gentoo's ebuild repository. If you have been waiting for me to add/update packages and I haven't gotten around to it due to life being so busy now would be a good time to poke me. I will also hopefully be completing the ribbon support I have already talked about and that should make it into a release soon but wasn't ready for this release.

We would love to receive feedback on the latest release of Avogadro. These new features will also make their way into Kalzium in KDE 4.1.

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Michael Pyne on :

Michael PyneShipmate, Mole Day will always be June 2nd. :-) (6.02 -> 6/2 in US Date format).

You've not lived until you've seen your chemistry teacher in a mole costume on the last week of school...

Either way, 10/23 is also a great day for a release!

Geoff Hutchison on :

Geoff HutchisonWell, we'll just have to have a release on June 2nd as well.

Benoit Jacob on :

Benoit JacobYay !

opens good bottle of wine

Paquillo on :

PaquilloYour work looks really nice. Thanks ! I am really sure that hundreds of people are interested in such a tool.

As I am not a fanatic of compilation, I get two simple questions :

1. Do you intend to make a package of Avogadro (rpm / deb...) for people who are not used to compilation ?
2. Is there some Avogadro in Kalzium for KDE 4.0 or do we have to wait eagerly for KDE 4.1 :-) ?

Thanks for answering

Marcus D. Hanwell on :

Marcus D. HanwellI am glad you like the work done so far. There is lots more to come assuming I can figure out how to do it and find the time. As always we welcome new contributors too.

There is already a Gentoo package and I think one of the Debian maintainers is interested in making a package. I am a Gentoo developer but do not have experience in creating packages for other distros. I was thinking of looking into it but haven?t found the time.

Of course there is some Avogadro in Kalzium for KDE 4.0 too, just many of these cool new features have been frozen out until 4.1. There are videos of Kalzium's 3D viewer on my blog and other peoples.

Paquillo on :

PaquilloThank you for replying !

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