PEP 541 Request: pyRMSD

[benmwebb]

Project to be claimed

pyRMSD: https://pypi.org/project/pyRMSD

Your PyPI username

benmwebb : https://pypi.org/user/benmwebb

Reasons for the request

This project appears to have been abandoned by its original owner.

The last PyPI release was back in 2015: https://pypi.org/project/pyRMSD/#history
This older version doesn't support Python 3 (see victor-gil-sepulveda/pyRMSD#14) so most users on modern operating systems, with Python 3, can't "pip install" it anyway.

No GitHub issues have been commented on by the original owner since 2017, and no pull requests have been merged: https://github.com/victor-gil-sepulveda/pyRMSD/issues

We forked the original project some time ago at https://github.com/salilab/pyRMSD and have since incorporated Python 3 support and a number of bug fixes. Arguably, any users of the software today will be using this fork rather than the original.

Maintenance or replacement?

Maintenance

Source code repositories URLs

Current (abandoned): https://github.com/victor-gil-sepulveda/pyRMSD
Active fork: https://github.com/salilab/pyRMSD

Contact and additional research

The current author was contacted via GitHub issues way back in 2021, without response: victor-gil-sepulveda/pyRMSD#18

Code of Conduct

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