[Imgcif-l] Disabling PyCifRW in CBFlib

[Herbert J. Bernstein]

Dear Colleagues,

    The default release of CBFlib is now 0.9.2 at

    http://downloads.sf.net/cbflib/CBFlib-0.9.2.tar.gz

Suggestions, comments and suggestions would be appreciated.
The documentation for this release is available at

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/CBF

This is now the recommended release of CBFlib.



The major changes since the 0.9.0 release are:

Temporary removal of default PyCifRW support for compliance with
Fedora license requirements.

Addition of a new tiff2cbf example program.

Update pycbf python wraapper for CBFlib.

Padding options added to adscimg2cbf by C. Nielsen.

System and gnu versions of getopt replaced by cbf_getopt.

Code to handle CIF2 bracketed constructs and quoted strings added.

System to log errors and warnings added.

Java wrapper by Peter Chang added.

Dectris template code by E. Eikenberry added.

Note that the tiff2cbf program, plus new options in cif2cbf
allows the Perkin Elmer XRD1621 detector images to be used
with XDS.  Thanks to Matthias Gutmannfor requesting
this feature.


The known problems are:

The example program tiff2cbf needs the environment variable
LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to the location of the lib directory in
CBFlib_0.9.2, unless a system install of tiff-3.9.4-rev-6Feb11 has
been done.

Due to license issues, PyCifRW is not included with default releases
of CBFlib. Users can download PyCifRW separately.

There are some issues with Peter Chang's lastest java wrapper under
the CBFlib 0.9.2 release. Until they are resolved, the CBFlib 0.8.1
release should be used for Java applications.

This version does not have support for predictor compression.

Code is needed to support array sub-sections.

For more detail, see the CBFlib manual at

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/CBF/doc/CBFlib.html

Regards,
   Herbert



At 7:23 PM -0500 1/19/11, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>The Fedora operating system maintainers have discovered a license 
>issue for James Hester's PyCifRW package that they feel makes it 
>inappropriate for inclusion directly in open source Fedora operating 
>system releases. Inasmuch as recent releases of CBFlib have included 
>a copy of PyCifRW to support DDLm dictionary checking, this issue 
>then prevents completion of the inclusion of CBFlib in Fedora. 
>CBFlib is already included in Debian.
>
>In order to allow CBFlib to be included in Fedora and to prevent any 
>issues from arising in any future updates to Debian, we will be 
>temporarily disabling the use of PyCifRW in CBFlib until the PyCifRW 
>license issues can be resolved. This is not in any way a reflection 
>on PyCifRW, which is a fine package, and if your system is able to 
>properly use PyCifRW within the constraints of the current PyCifRW 
>license, you will still be able to use it with CBFlib.
>
>The use of PyCifRW has already been disabled by default in the svn
>repository copy of CBFlib_bleeding edge.  Early next week we will be
>building release kits of CBFlib both with and without PyCIFRW so that
>those who satisfy the PyCifRW license conditions can continue to use
>it and the free software operating maintainers will have versions
>that do not raise license issue for them.
>
>Our apologies for any difficulty the necessary set of changes may cause.
>
>Regards,
>   Herbert J. Bernstein
>
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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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  Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
    Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121
         Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769

                  +1-631-244-3035
                  yaya at dowling.edu
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