Changing XDrawChem to Bkchem

[Hans de Goede]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Friday, 13 June 2008 at 06:57, Henrique LonelySpooky Junior wrote:
>> Em Sex, 2008-06-13 às 00:30 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams escreveu:
>>> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 00:26 -0300, Henrique Junior wrote:
>>>> Friends,
>>>>
>>>> I've using Fedora as my main distro for a while now (FC 3) and here in
>>>> Brazil, where I study Chemical Engineering, I started to use the
>>>> excellent XDrawChem software, for drawing chemical structures and
>>>> diagrams of reactions. I discovered, however, that the development of
>>>> the program is freezed since November of 2005 [1] and the activities
>>>> in the discutions lists had ceased a long time ago.
>>>> The future of this software seems uncertain and, until this point,
>>>> poor promising, since improvements are not being made and it's
>>>> outdated in comparison of what expect from a system that cares about
>>>> constant evolution.
>>>> After some research and tests, I found the BkChem [2], that it is
>>>> similar in functions, but it's uninterruptedly being developed and
>>>> that, in fact, it had shown better results compared to the XdrawChem
>>>> could obtain at the moment. The structures are more clear, the methods
>>>> of drawing more refined and the plugins and tools already are compared
>>>> with the ones that the XDrawChem had. The BkChem is distribuited under
>>>> GPL and seems to be a good (and promising) substitute to the deceased
>>>> XdrawChem.
>>>>
>>>> [1] -  http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/ 
>>>> [2] - http://bkchem.zirael.org/ 
>>> Thanks for showing an interest!
>>>
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>> Hi, Ignacio
>> I'm not shure to have the necessary skills to do that... =(
> 
> If you're willing to learn, I'm sure there are some seasoned Fedora
> contributors that will help you (myself included). Why don't you try
> creating a package of BkChem and submitting it for review?
> 

Yip,

If you're willing to learn and invest some time into this I'm more then happy 
to show you the ropes.

Regards,

Hans