[Bioperl-l] SCF installation

[James Bonfield]

Lincoln Stein wrote:
> It is all a bit confusing. On the download page for Staden, there is a
> release 1.12, but the home page hasn't been updated and still reads
> 1.11. If you download and install Staden 1.12, you'll get a library
> named libstaden-read rather than libread; Bio::SCF hasn't been updated
> for the name change, and so you will have to open up the Makefile.PL
> and change "-lread" to "-lstaden-read" in order for it to compile.

This post was pointed out to me by one of the Debian maintainers. I'm
mailing the list directly but am not a subscriber, so please keep me
listed in any replies.

The Staden Package home page recently underwent a revamp to use the
RSS feeds, automatically updating it. Unfortunately within a couple
weeks of doing that sourceforge managed to break the file release RSS
and so the site has stopped updating. <Mutter>   The News section is
still working though, so I ought to add a news post about
io_lib-1.12.1 and it'll at least appear somewhere on the home page.

Regarding the library name change, this was requested by Debian and
also already implemented by Fedora. I agree with it too as libread.so
is a truely appalling name, so the new name is here to stay. There
shouldn't be a great number of differences compared to the 1.11.x
release set though, with the only incompatibility I can immediately
think of being the change from int to size_t in the Array structs.

James

PS. There's been very few changes to SCF over the years so it's likely
all working just fine. Most recent io_lib changes have been SRF
support, and a few associated tweaks to ZTR necessitated by SRF.


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