[sharp-discuss] coot setup

[Clemens Vonrhein]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:15:38PM +0000, Frank von Delft wrote:
> According to a posting earlier this year 
> (http://www.globalphasing.com/pipermail/sharp-discuss/2007-July/001848.html), 
> to make coot run, you need to define CootSetup.  Is there any reason it 
> can't be enough simply to define the coot executable in helpers.local? 
> (i.e. what else do people define in coot_setup.sh, apart from the path?)

The reason it is a setup file is that earlier versions of coot
had a more difficult way of setting things up - this has been
simplified greatly in the last couple of releases.

The advantage of having a setup file is, that you could e.g. setup
your CCP4 environment and then make use of a direct connection from
the Coot window to e.g. running refmac etc. So the CootSetup
definition allows for greater flexibility and is more future proof -
even if at the moment you just put the PATH in there so that the
'coot' command is found.

Does that make sense?

Cheers

Clemens

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