[Biopython-dev] Compiling on modern windows (recent mingw)

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I've got a hunch that spaces in the executable path might explain
> some of these failures - I'm trying a patch for that here.

Hi Tiago,

Patch applied to master - this is essential for the rare case of
calling a binary under Unix where the path/filename includes
a space, but appears to be redundant under Windows XP:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/815de571b623f1cd3659fe4c80e3917e1a437580

I'm curious if that matters under Windows 8 or not - trying
the example in the commit comment at the command line
might be illuminating.

Peter

P.S. Saket - You might remember I touched on this issue in our
discussion on GitHub about your bwa/samtools wrappers, which
led to this commit keeping self.program_name as the binary only:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/ca93be741c8fd9bad67106acb455348251797f3a