[gmx-developers] Interface

[David van der Spoel]

Hi,

After some requests from the CCL etc. I think it would be useful to
consider creating a "clean" programming interface, so that e.g. graphics
programs can link to the gromacs MD code in a simple way.

The point is of course that we want to do it once and for all, so we
probably would have to introduce a structure type which contains
everything, like

typedef struct {
  ... stuff here ...
} t_gromacs;

The interface would consist of a couple of routines like:

  t_gromacs *initialize_gromacs();
  void minimize(t_gromacs *g);
  void dynamics(t_gromacs *g);

Any comments?

-- 
Groeten, David.
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