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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu May 28 2009 - 19:25:09 CDT

Tom,
  For plugins targeting VMD 1.8.7 and later versions, you could
simply do the package require, as it should already be part of
the Tcl 8.5.x standard library. If you want the code to work on
older versions of VMD, or on VMD compilations based on Tcl 8.4.x,
then you/we would have to come up with another solution I think.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:18:17PM -0500, Thomas C. Bishop wrote:
> I would like to include some statistics capabilities for a VMD plug-in that
> I'm developing.
>
> Tcl has a statistics library that provides way more than what I need.
> However this lib appears to be part of the Tcl standard lib.
> see
> http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/statistics.html
>
> Is it a good idea to include this in my plug-in?
>
> To ensure usability would this lib have to be included w/ VMD distributions.
>
> package require math::statistics 0.5
> would the be all I need for my plug-in.
>
> Let me know of other alternatives (python libraries?)
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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