[Bioperl-l] Automatic download of bioperl from git

[Scott Cain]

Also on the bioperl git page is a "download master" link, which pops
up a cute javascript window offering me a choice of zip or tar files.
If I copy the url of the tar file, I get a page that says:

You are being <a
href="http://waitdownload.github.com/bioperl-bioperl-live-bioperl-release-1-5-1-rc4-3925-g4073c12.tar.gz">redirected</a>.

where presumably, the digits after "bioperl-release" will change on a
regular basis (right?), so that doesn't help much either (yes, I know
I could parse the redirect message and get that url, but really, is
there such a thing as a HEAD url?)

Thanks,
Scott


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Scott Cain <scott at scottcain.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For GBrowse on the 1.X branch there is a network install script that
> people can download and execute and it will install all of the
> prerequisites and then install GBrowse.  For this script, we also
> support a -d(eveloper) option, to get GBrowse and BioPerl from their
> repositories.  Now that BioPerl has moved to git, I have a question:
> does anybody know if there is a way (preferably via url) to get
> bioperl from git in a non-interactive way?
>
> The read-only url on the bioperl-live git page,
> http://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live.git, leads to a 404 error, and
> even if it didn't, I have a feeling that it would take a click or two
> to get to downloading source.  Does anybody with more git-fu than me
> (which isn't a hard thing to have, since I don't have much) have any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
>
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> Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                   scott at scottcain dot net
> GMOD Coordinator (http://gmod.org/)                     216-392-3087
> Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                   scott at scottcain dot net
GMOD Coordinator (http://gmod.org/)                     216-392-3087
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research