BALL Project Wiki Pages

Welcome to the BALL Wiki! This site offers tutorials and explanations centered all around being productive using BALL and BALLView. Furthermore developers can discuss and collect their ideas as well as look up information on coding practices and interfaces.

Get BALL

• Release archive: link
  If you are an end-user searching for binary packages this is your link.
• Source code: link
  If you are a developer and want to build ball from source this is your link.

Contact and Support

• Mailing list for end-users: link
• Mailing list for developers: link

Documentation

• Get help on how to get started
• Seek advice in the Tutorials (BALL coding, BALLView, python coding)
• Browse the Code Library (C++ and python)
• Learn about the python interface
• Learn more about BALL tools ballaxy and CADDSuite
• Common issues and questions can be found in the FAQ
• BALL API documentation: link
• Release Notes for the BALL versions >= 1.3

Build from Source

• Linux: link
• macOS: link
• Windows: link

For Developers

• Discussion Pages
• Report an issue
• Coding Style
• The current state of the Python bindings
• The new ballaxy web server

Mailing Lists

Do you have questions about BALL? Have you written patches that fix bugs or add new features? Then the right place for you are the mailing lists:

• BALL Discussion
  A general purpose mailing list for discussions and general questions for all BALL/BALLView users.
• BALL Developer
  Use this list if you want to submit patches or plan to participate in the development of BALL.