Chemistry/Mol version 0.30 ========================== This toolkit includes basic objects and methods to describe molecules. It consists of several modules: Chemistry::Mol, Chemistry::Atom, Chemistry::Bond, and Chemistry::File. These are the core modules of the PerlMol toolkit; see http://www.perlmol.org/. CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.26 - New Chemistry::File interface - Added gzip support for reading and writing - New Atom methods: sprout_hydrogens, collapse_hydrogens, mass_number - New Mol methods: sprout_hydrogens, collapse_hydrogens - Added support for Chemistry::Isotope - Extended the Chemistry::Obj::attr method - New Obj methods: new() - Fixed backward compatibility bug in File/Dumper.pm - Fixed inconsistency when an object id was changed - Improved the testing suite INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: - perl-5.6.0 or more recent (5.8.0+ recommended) - Math::VectorReal - Scalar::Util (already a core module since perl 5.7.3) - Test::More (already a core module since perl 5.7.3) - Text::Balanced (already a core module since perl 5.7.3) - IO::String (required only for versions of perl prior to 5.8.0) The following modules are optional, but are required by certain functions: - Chemistry::InternalCoords - Compress::Zlib - Chemistry::Isotope COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2004 Ivan Tubert-Brohman This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.