On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Peter Rice<[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter C. wrote: > >> Thanks Scott (& Thomas) for pointing out the embossversion program. >> >> I would still question why the EMBOSS tools don't also support the >> Unix convention of a version switch. Hypothetically, aren't some >> (many?) of the tools standalone and couldn't they be installed >> individually (e.g. as part of someone else's software bundle)? i.e. >> Can EMBOSS really guarantee that the needle tool and the >> embossversion tool are in sync? > > We could easily add a -version global qualifier ... for the next release. > > We can guarantee that embossversion and needle are in sync - assuming > they are built using the same libraries as that is where the version is > recorded. Standalone build are an issue though and it would help debug > in a few cases.
That sounds good to me :) Peter C. _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
