Minimal value from their content. About their inclusion in the distro - I recall only using them from www.cgl.ucsf.edu and not the local copy included with the download.

Most beneficial are the examples. If I recall correctly there are sections that are not complete or not in the table of contents in the examples part of the guide. In addition, parts of the examples section are pretty weak, e.g. molecular editing (which is very short and really describes molecular selection and display NOT editing). More documentation of how to modify coordinates, add / delete atoms, molecules, etc. would be very much appreciated as would more solid examples of, and caveats for C/C++ extensions.

- David

-- David A. C. Beck, Ph.D. dacb@u.washington.edu Valerie Daggett Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Eric Pettersen wrote:

To reduce the developer's maintenance load, we're looking to shave off parts that don't get much use. One item getting the hairy eyeball is the auto-generated Programmer's Reference Manual pages. Is anyone getting any value from these? If not, we will give them the heave ho. It will also save some on Chimera's download size (800K compressed for download; 21MB on disk).

--Eric

                  Eric Pettersen
                  UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                  http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu