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[Samuel Hornus <>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:39:17 +0100
"Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)"
<>
 wrote:

> 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.

Thank you Laurent and Timo,
Laurent, I see your point, and I guess my concern is that nothing in
the documented part of CGAL makes use of the PDB code (AFAIK, only one
example does), which made me wonder why there is PDB code at all...
This is further confused in Daniel's webpage that gives the
documentation but states that his PDB reader is part of CGAL.

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

Thank you for that link, that may well close all questions above!
-- 
Samuel