[gmx-users] Binary compatibility Gromacs 3.x <-> 4.0

[David van der Spoel]

Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 17:27 +0200, David van der Spoel wrote:
>> Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> are GROMACS 4.0 files binary compatible with GROMACS 3.(3.)x files?
>>>
>>> Explanation: I am working on a package of Gromacs 4 that is going to be
>>> included in Fedora. Is there still a need to have a separate package for
>>> Gromacs 3.3.x or is just Gromacs 4 enough?
>> Gromacs 4.0 can read all old files from gromacs 3.3.
> 
> OK. So in your opinion having the latest version is enough?
Yes, I would be in favor of always installing the latest version as 
"gromacs". One could consider also installing older versions. Another 
nice thing might be to include both single and double precision versions.

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