[Biojava-dev] compilation of 1.8.2

[Michael Heuer]

Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou at irisa.fr> wrote:
> Le 5/23/12 6:45 PM, Michael Heuer a écrit :
>> Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou at irisa.fr> wrote:
>>> Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:
>>>> - If you go through all the trouble why don't you do this update for
>>>> the 3.X series?
>>> I am packaging biojava for Debian, we plan to package v1.8 and v3.
>> Hello Olivier,
>>
>> I did the biojava release and the debian packaging for 1.7.1.
>>
>> I saw that there were dependency problems in the 1.8 series, but those
>> were not resolved in the 1.8.2 release.  We might need to make a new
>> 1.8.3 or 1.9 biojava-legacy release to fix these issues.
>>
>> Please let me know how I might help.
> The issue is indeed that 1.8.2 makes use of sources/jar in biojava3
> (biojava3-structure)
>
> This means I would have to package biojava3 to compile biojava 1.8.2....
> not really fun.
> Even if I plan to package biojava3, source archive 1.8.2 shold be self
> contained.

I agree, biojava-legacy 1.8.2 is broken.

I propose that we fix the dependency issue and release a new
biojava-legacy version 1.8.3 or 1.9, which should be debian friendly.

   michael