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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On Thursday 28 January 2010 12:25:19 Samuel Hornus wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> The CGAL distribution (3.5.1) contains a lot of code (headers and a
> libCGAL_PDB) for reading and inspecting PDB files. Yet, it seems that
> no documentation is available (on CGAL's website), or did I miss
> it?
> - Is it useless code that should be removed from the library at some
>   point in the future?
> - Or is it code that will stay in CGAL (that I can count on being
>   maintained) and which should be documented?

That piece of code, like libCGAL_ImageIO, is only used internally and is not 
documented. It will not be documented in the future, and may be replaced by 
another way of reading PDB files.

If you are looking for a PDB reading library, that is maintained, you could 
try:
   http://esbtl.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/