Hello Heng,
thanks for your clarification.
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:20:46AM -0500, Heng Li wrote:
> Many thanks for considering to port maqview to Debian Med. Unfortunately, I
> am afraid that for maqview we have to include those private zlib headers
> because maqview must use very low-level zlib structs and functions in order
> to achieve random access in a generic gzip file.
I have seen that you are using low level functions and I simply trust
your word that this is the only way because I have no time for a deeper
inspection. However, if I were you I would probably consider poking
zlib authors for an implementation of your requirement in a stable API.
I also noticed that you are using an outdated copy of zlib and I have no
idea about the security implications this might have. So I'd suggest in
any case to restructure your source code and put foreign code in a
separate directory with a clean documentation what version is used and
why.
> At the same time, although maqview still has a few features that even the
> most modern viewers are missing, it is not the best any more (for example,
> IGV, which has been ported to Debian Med, is more generic and better).
I've got another hint to IGV and I just tried it yesterday. Thanks for
the hint in any case.
> If you have difficulty in porting maqview, you may consider not to include
> maqview in Debian Med. This would be unfortunate for us, but we are unable to
> drop the dependency. I am sorry.
It is not actually *difficult* to build MaqView for Debian - it is just
considered "dirty" to include copies of any library. So before I'm
doing dirty things I'm just checking whether there is a better way to
do.
Once we are at it, I have some other questions:
1. There is a MaqDataClient.java which builds two *.class files.
Can you please explain the role of this. I have the impression
that these files are not really used. Am I missing something?
2. I also failed to find some documentation about MaqIndex.pm and
maqindex_socket.pl and so I just installed the binaries which
are compiled from the C sources. Any hint about the use of
these files?
Kind regards and thanks for your comments
Andreas.
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