Luca Capello <[email protected]> writes: > Please note that I have never used any of the tools below, I am simply > moving a lenny machine with manually-installed BLAST+ to squeeze with > the Debian package ;-)
Nevertheless, I appreciate your suggestions. > Some BLAST+ upstream tools are missing in the Debian package and I could > not find the reason in the README.Debian. According to the SVN log > (thus something not really end-user), these are considered "tests, > demos, and internal build tools": As Olivier noted, BLAST+ is a subset of NCBI's C++ Toolkit; although we have not yet managed to package the Toolkit in its entirety, we would like to avoid adding extra hurdles to doing so. > From the upstream page above: "DATATOOL can be used to formally > convert any ASN.1 or XML data or data specification". Given that you > can download ASN.1 sequences directly from upstream NCBI, IMHO this > should be included in the binary package. datatool certainly has its uses, but it is nevertheless somewhat beyond the scope of the ncbi-blast+ binary package. As such, if we are to ship it, I'd favor splitting it out into its own package (taking the opportunity to supply a suitable version number) and doing the same for the handful of private shared libraries it needs. > BTW, is the ucko in the commit logs for gene_info.cpp the same Aaron > M. Ucko working on the Debian package? In this case, he knows better > than me ;-) I am, but hadn't noticed that gene_info_reader, unlike the vast majority of the Toolkit's demos, may actually be of interest to end users, not just developers; I'm open to including it in the ncbi-blast+ binary package. > 3) project_tree_builder > > <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB/ToolBox/CPP_DOC/lxr/source/scripts/projects/project_tree_builder/> > > Used to generate makefiles, internal, not needed. Indeed. Thanks for the feedback! (Olivier, please let me know if you'd like help implementing any of those suggestions.) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
